1 Mai metro station
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1 Mai is a metro
station in northern Bucharest
, serving line M4. It is situated in Chibrit or Clăbucet Square, at the intersection of Griviţa Way, Ion Mihalache Avenue and Bucureştii Noi Road.
The station itself was opened on March 1, 2000, as part of Stage I of M4 line.
The station was built in a manner similar to Griviţa
and Gara de Nord II
, employing a wide central platform, a blue-grey, dark color scheme using black granite
floors, blue and grey synthetic walls and chrome
and aluminum metal insertions.
Avenue — 1 Mai Avenue. This has proven controversial — firstly, because most inhabitants associate "1 Mai" with the 1 Mai Market located almost 3 km away from the metro station and secondly because the name 1 Mai Avenue had been already given to another street in Western Bucharest when the subway station opened. Incidentally, that avenue will also probably host a metro station in the future.
Bucharest Metro
The Bucharest Metro is an underground urban railway network that serves the capital of Romania, Bucharest. The network is run by Metrorex. It is one of the most accessed systems of the Bucharest public transport network with a ridership of 177.23 million passengers in 2010...
station in northern Bucharest
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
, serving line M4. It is situated in Chibrit or Clăbucet Square, at the intersection of Griviţa Way, Ion Mihalache Avenue and Bucureştii Noi Road.
The station itself was opened on March 1, 2000, as part of Stage I of M4 line.
The station was built in a manner similar to Griviţa
Grivita metro station
Griviţa is a metro station in northern Bucharest. It was opened in 2000 as part of Line M4, and is therefore one of the most modern stations in Bucharest. It is located near the Griviţa railroad workshops....
and Gara de Nord II
Gara de Nord
București Gara de Nord is the main railway station in Bucharest and the largest railway station in Romania...
, employing a wide central platform, a blue-grey, dark color scheme using black granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
floors, blue and grey synthetic walls and chrome
Chrome plating
Chrome plating, often referred to simply as chrome, is a technique of electroplating a thin layer of chromium onto a metal object. The chromed layer can be decorative, provide corrosion resistance, ease cleaning procedures, or increase surface hardness.-Process:A component to be chrome plated will...
and aluminum metal insertions.
Name
The name of the station was chosen based on the former name of Ion MihalacheIon Mihalache
Ion Mihalache was a Romanian agrarian politician, the founder and leader of the Peasants' Party and a main figure of its successor, the National Peasants' Party .-Early life:...
Avenue — 1 Mai Avenue. This has proven controversial — firstly, because most inhabitants associate "1 Mai" with the 1 Mai Market located almost 3 km away from the metro station and secondly because the name 1 Mai Avenue had been already given to another street in Western Bucharest when the subway station opened. Incidentally, that avenue will also probably host a metro station in the future.