Portal de Usme (TransMilenio)

For other uses, see Usme (disambiguation).

Portal de Usme
General information
Location	Avenida Caracas with Calle 63 sur Usme neighborhood
Line(s)	Caracas Sur - Usme
Platforms	2
History
Opened	August 6, 2001
Services
Preceding station TransMilenio Following station Molinos towards Tercer Milenio Terminus

Portal de Usme is one of the terminal stations in the TransMilenio mass-transit system of Bogotá, Colombia, opened in the year 2000.

Location

Portal de Usme is located in the extreme south of Bogotá, specifically on Avenida Caracas 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 dynamite against the station by disarming six sticks of the explosive.

Station services

Old trunk services

Services rendered until April 29, 2006

Kind	Routes	Frequency
Current		Every 3 minutes on average
Express		Every 2 minutes on average
Express Dominical		Every 3 or 4 minutes on average

Current trunk services

Service as of April 29, 2006

Type	Northern Routes	Western Route
Local	3
Express Every day All Day	B75
Express Monday through Saturday All day	D20 B72 C17	K54
Express Monday through Friday Morning rush	D51
Ending routes
Local	3
Express Every day All Day	H75
Express Monday through Saturday All day	H20 H54 H72 H17

Feeder routes

The terminal operates the following feeder routes:

• 3-2 Santa Librada loop
• 3-3 Chuniza loop
• 3-4 Alfonso López loop
• 3-5 Usminia loop
• 3-6 Danubio loop
• 3-8 Virrey loop
• 3-9 Marichuela loop
• 3-10 Usme-Centro loop
• 3-11 La Fiscala loop
• 3-12 Compostela loop
• 3-13 Nebraska loop
• 3-14 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

• TransMilenio

See also

• Bogotá
• TransMilenio
• List of TransMilenio stations