Portal de Usme is one of the terminal stations in the

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mass-transit system of

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, opened in the year 2000.

Location

Portal de Usme is located in the extreme south of Bogotá, specifically on

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south of the La Picota national penitentiary.

History

In 2001, a few months after the opening of the system, the Portal de Usme was opened as the second terminal station in the system. After a lawsuit from a passenger complaining of lack of handicapped access on the feeder routes at the station, the fleet of feeder buses was renovated to accommodate this service in 2005. On February 2, 2002, police thwarted an attempt to use

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against the station by disarming six sticks of the explosive.

Station services

Old trunk services

Current trunk services

Feeder routes

The terminal operates the following feeder routes: * Santa Librada loop * Chuniza loop * Alfonso López loop * Usminia loop * Danubio loop * Virrey loop * Marichuela loop * Usme-Centro loop * La Fiscala loop * Compostela loop * Nebraska loop * El Uval loop

Inter-city service

Due to its location near the mountainous south of the city, the station does not have inter-city service.

External links

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