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Portal del Norte (TransMilenio)
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| Location | Autopista Norte Autopista Norte (Bogotá) Autopista Norte, also called Autopista paseo de los libertadores , is a major road in Bogotá, Colombia, running through the northern part of the city to its southern end at Avenida Caracas.-Names:... with Calle 172/176 |
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| Neighborhood | Usaquén Usaquén Usaquén is a residential and commercial locality in northern Bogotá, capital of Colombia. Although it is designated on maps as Bogotá's #1 locality, it was a separate municipality of Cundinamarca until 1954, when it was annexed into the city. Today, Usaquén is home of more than 480.000 inhabitants... and Suba Suba (Bogotá) Suba is the 11th locality of the Capital District of the Colombian capital city, Bogotá. Suba is located north of the city, limiting to the north with the municipality of Chía in Cundinamarca Department, to the west with the municipality of Cota, to the east with the locality of Usaquén and to the... |
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| Opened | 2001 | ||
Portal del Norte is one of the terminus stations of the TransMilenio
TransMilenio
TransMilenio is a bus rapid transit system that serves Bogotá, the capital of Colombia. The system opened to the public in December 2000, covering Av. Caracas and Calle 80...
mass-transit system of Bogotá
Bogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...
, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
, which opened in the year 2000.
Location
Portal del Norte is located in northern Bogotá, specifically on Autopista NorteAutopista Norte (Bogotá)
Autopista Norte, also called Autopista paseo de los libertadores , is a major road in Bogotá, Colombia, running through the northern part of the city to its southern end at Avenida Caracas.-Names:...
with Calle 175.
It serves the La Uribe, Villa del Prado, Nueva Zelandia, and Northwest San Antonio neighborhoods.
History
In late 2001, after the opening of the Portal de UsmePortal de Usme (TransMilenio)
Portal de Usme is one of the terminal stations in the TransMilenio mass-transit system of Bogotá, Colombia, opened in the year 2000.-Location:...
, the Portal del Norte was opened as the third terminus in the system.
Nearby there are Éxito and Home Center superstores, as well as a Colsubsidio and a small shopping center called Panama.
In mid-2005, its entire fleet of feeder buses made by Mercedes Benz and operated by Alnorte
were renovated to be put into non-TransMilenio service. A new operator, Alnorte Fase 2 began service
with new Volkswagen
Volkswagen
Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer and is the original and biggest-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, which now also owns the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, and Škoda marques and the truck manufacturer Scania.Volkswagen means "people's car" in German, where it is...
buses that bore the branding of Brazil's Busscar
Busscar
Busscar Ônibus S.A. is a Brazilian bus manufacturer that builds coaches, trolleybuses, charter and tour buses. The company is based in Joinville in the south of Brazil, where it has industrial premises that cover 1,000,000 m2, including a building of 84,000 m2.-History:The business has its origins...
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Main line service
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| Local | EWLINE |
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Every three minutes | ||||||||||
| Express Monday through Saturday All day |
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Every two minutes | ||||||||||
| Express Monday through Saturday Morning rush |
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Every two minutes | ||||||||||
| Express Monday through Saturday Evening rush |
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Every two minutes | ||||||||||
| Express Monday through Saturday Mixed service, rush and non-rush |
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Every two minutes | ||||||||||
| Express Sunday and holidays | EWLINE |
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Every 3-4 minutes | ||||||||||
| Feeder/Inter-city | | Every five minutes | ||||||||||||
Feeder routes
The station has the following feeder routes:- Route 2.1 Mirandela loop
--> one of the stops serves Santafé, the largest shopping center in the country.
- Route 2.2 Los Jardines loop
--> serves the two largest cemeteries in the city, Jardines del Recuerdo and Jardines de Paz
- Route 2.3 San Antonio loop
- Route 2.4 El Codito loop
- Route 2.5 San Cristóbal loop
- Route 2.6 Guaymaral loop
--> serves the Bima shopping center, where the Camelot theme park is located
- Route 2.7 San José
--> The western-most stop is a few blocks from the Carrefour supercenter in San José de Bavaria. It will also have a stop by the new Suba megalibrary.
- Route 2.8 Expreso 170 Oriental loop
--> Only in rush hour.
- Route 2.9 Expreso 170 Occidental loop
--> Only in rush hour
- Route 2.10 Verbenal loop
- Route 2.11 Andalucía loop
--> Only in rush hour
Inter-city services
Portal del Norte also has inter-city services toChia
Chía, Cundinamarca
Chía is a town and municipality in the Cundinamarca department of Colombia, located to the north of Bogotá on the main road to Zipaquira. Its history dates back to the pre-Columbian era. The name comes from the Chibchan language and means "moon" or "month"....
, Zipaquirá
Zipaquirá
Zipaquirá is a municipality and city of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca. Its neighboring municipalities are Tausa and Cogua to the north; Nemocón, Gachancipá and Sopó to the east; Cajicá and Tabio to the south; and Subachoque and Pacho to the west. Its seat of municipal government is 49...
, Cajicá
Cajicá
Cajicá is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca.The native name of Cajicá is "The Stone Fortress." It is the third most populous municipality in the province after Zipaquirá and Chía- Other Facts:*Market Day: Sunday...
, Tabio
Tabio
Tabio is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca. It is located at from Bogotá. The population was 20,714 at 2005...
, Tenjo
Tenjo
Tenjo is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca....
, Gachancipá
Gachancipá
Gachancipá is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca....
and Tocancipá
Tocancipá
Tocancipá is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca. The race track is located in the surroundings of the town, here they make vintage auto races as well as gt races....
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