|
Red de Expresos Regionales (RER, English: Regional Express Network) is a planned mass transit system in Buenos Aires which will connect the main rail terminals of the city through of tunnels with a central terminal. The tunnels will mean that the existing commuter rail network will be connected, with passengers being able to travel from one part of Greater Buenos Aires and La Plata to the other while only making one change at the new underground central terminal.〔(Detalles del proyecto para conectar todos los ferrocarriles urbanos debajo del Obelisco ) - Buenos Aires Ciudad, 12 May 2015.〕 The project is modelled on the Réseau Express Régional in Paris.〔(Una idea que nació en París ) - Buenos Aires Ciudad, 12 May 2015.〕 It is estimated that after the completion of the project, combined with the current renewal of the commuter rail lines' rolling stock, passenger numbers will double from 1.4 million passengers per day to 3 million. ==History and Overview== The idea of linking the main commuter rail lines of Buenos Aires through an underground tunnel dates back to 1969, resulting in a 1973 study which suggested creating a ''Red Expresa Regional''.〔(Planificacion Y Estrategia En la región metropolitana ) - Pagina/12, 20 October 2013.〕 While the original proposal sought to link the Mitre Line and Roca Line through the centre of the city, more recent proposals suggested creating underground tunnels between Retiro railway station, Once railway station and Constitución railway station - the three biggest rail terminals of the city.〔〔(RER: UN PROYECTO INDISPENSABLE PARA LA MOVILIDAD METROPOLITANA DE BUENOS AIRES ) - Roberto Agosta and Martín Blas Orduna, 2009.〕 Such a line would connect all urban and suburban commuter rail lines in the city, with the exception of the Urquiza Line which has access tunnels to Line B at of the Buenos Aires Underground Federico Lacroze railway station and the Belgrano Sur Line, whose inclusion in RER first depends on the current plans for the extension of the line to Constitución being completed.〔(Elevarán las trazas del ferrocarril San Martín y del Belgrano Sur ) - InfoBAE, 16 December 2014.〕 The current RER proposal was put forward by Buenos Aires mayor Mauricio Macri in 2015.〔(Mauricio Macri lanzó el proyecto de obra de transporte de pasajeros más importante de la historia de la Ciudad ) - Buenos Aires Ciudad, 8 May 2015.〕 The project includes the construction of of tunnels to link the three main railway terminals and the construction of five new underground stations: one at each of the terminals, one underneath the Obelisco in the centre of the city and another in the Central Business District underneath the Buenos Aires Central Post Office.〔 The total cost of the project will be US$1.8 billion and will integrate the existing network through the tunnels.〔(Macri promete una estación central debajo del Obelisco ) - La Nacion, 9 May 2015.〕 The central station will connect with the Metrobus network, as well as the Buenos Aires Underground lines , , and , while the Correo Central station will also connect with .〔 The first stage of the project will take four years to complete and consists of building the Obelisco station and the North-South tunnels from Retiro railway station to Constitución railway station, integrating the Mitre Line, Roca Line and San Martín Line. The second stage will take a further two years and will see the building of the East-West tunnels connecting Once railway station to the central station and the building of the Correo Central station, integrating the Sarmiento Line into the network. The final stage will take a further two years and will extend the Belgrano Sur Line to Constitución from its existing terminal using viaducts (a project already under way independently of RER〔) then build a new tunnel between Constitución and Retiro connecting the two metre gauge railways after they are electrified.〔〔〔(En campaña, Macri presentó un proyecto de RER ) - EnElSubte, 9 May 2015.〕 Perhaps the most notable omission from the project is the inclusion of the Urquiza Line whose terminal as at Federico Lacroze railway station in the West of the city. The line is distinctive from the other lines due to its standard gauge configuration since it was originally intended to be part of Line B of the Buenos Aires Underground. Urquiza Line trains without any modification could use the access tunnel at the Federico Lacroze underground station and travel through the line's tunnels to Carlos Pellegrini station which is where Line B would combine combine with RER regardless of the inclusion of the Urquiza line. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Red de Expresos Regionales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|