Inaugurated in 1913, the underground of Buenos Aires, conscript Subte in Argentina (abbreviation of Subterr neo) is the most ancient of the south hemisphere today. It is the line A that was constructed the first one, fast followed, lines B, C, D and E, respectively in 1930, on 1934, on 1937 and 1944.

I imagine easily your astonishment, which was also mine, at the sight of this very original distribution of lines, which really has no report any with the traditional tangle of lines of the Parisian underground or of the underground of London. Lines are very parallel, what makes go in the centre to be able to make one or two changes and leave again to the north of the city if they came from the south. Certainly, jobs are currently under way, for the building of the line H, while three other more or less transverse lines are in plan Mais fortunately (or not), there are buses!

Other curiosity, notably for us others, European used to the very complicated rates of undergrounds (rates weekend, student rates, rate zones 1, 2, 3, x, rates holiday, rates families, rates ci, rates there), the price of trip is 70 centavos, that you buy it from unit, or la carte of 10 trips. A very curious marketing conception that our capitalist brains will have quickly made to be recovering

But the features of this underground do not stop, its dilapidation there giving a lot of surprises: only the line B has a system of electrical feeding for example by third rail, while other lines are still fed by catenary air. Moreover none of the oars is equipped with letters by pneumatic tube. But nothing of all this is comparable to the line A, which makes you go back up in time, until 1913 very exactly, at the time when the wagons of Brugeoise were wooden Because the trains of the line A are always the same for 94 years!

A train of therefore, certainly splendid epoch, with doors and windows with manual opening, a checker who hisses to mean the departure of the underground, and doors which close again so dry, sometimes even before the whistle blast, surprising so the not inured passengers As the poor lady of this morning which saw doors closing again on the temples. In short, a trip in time, but also in stars, the space of some seconds!

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