PUERTO MADERO

'Puerto Madero' is a neighborhood, or ''barrio'', of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, which occupies a significant portion of the Río de la Plata riverbank.

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History

Transportation

References

External links

History

In the 1930s, port facilities were relocated to ''Puerto Nuevo'', the ("new port"), 1 km to the north, and most of the older brick warehouses were all but abandoned. In the 1990s, local and foreign money was invested in a massive regeneration effort, recycling the west side warehouses into lofts and restaurants, and adding some new hotels and office buildings, mostly in the east side. A new marina was built in Dock 1, the northernmost dock. In the 2000s the process continued, and more hotels, office and apartment buildings, both low-rise and high- rise have been built.
Currently more buildings are under construction in the east side,

Transportation

The neighborhood's road network has been entirely rebuilt, especially in the east side. The layout of the east side consists currently of three wide boulevards running east-west crossed by the east side's main street, Juana Manso Avenue. The layout is completed with some other avenues and minor streets, running both east-west and north-south, and by several pedestrianised streets.
A recently inaugurated 2 kilometre modern tramway «Tranvía del Este» line serves the area, it runs alongside the west side's main street, Alicia Moreau de Justo Avenue. However, the neighborhood is still not well-connected to the city's transit network. Few bus routes run through Puerto Madero, no subway line reaches it and currently there are no official plans to extend the subway network to the neighborhood in spite the fact that further extensions of the tramway are planned that will link the Retiro and Constitución terminal train stations ^[1].
An expressway connecting the north and the south of the city through Puerto Madero has long been in the planning stage. Several alternatives have been considered, including elevated, groundlevel, underground, and even an underwater proposal by private developer Julio Torcello, which would have run under the four docks (this last proposal was dismissed as impossible to build.[1] All proposals have been criticised: the elevated and groundlevel options because they would constitute a barrier between Puerto Madero and the rest of the city, and the underground scheme because of the cost and the negative impact during construction. Placing the expressway outside the city, between Puerto Madero and the Costanera Sur Natural Preserve has also been considered, but has been strongly opposed by environmentalists. All the streets of Puerto Madero are named after women. The ''Puente de la Mujer'' (Women's Bridge), by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, is the newest link between the east and west sides of Puerto Madero, opened in December 2001.

References

1. Proyectan Tranvía de Retiro a Constitución Rossi, Antonio

External links

★ Official website

★ Official website

★ Turistic Guide and entertainment in Puerto Madero

★ Estudian hacer una autopista subterránea en Puerto Madero

★ Solución para Puerto Madero

★ Sigue la polémica por la futura autopista ribereña

★ Comenzaron las obras para el tranvía de Puerto Madero