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Avenida Jiménez (TransMilenio)

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Avenida Jiménez (A)
General information
LocationAvenida Caracas between Calles 11 and 13
Los Mártires
Line(s)Caracas
Platforms3
History
OpenedDecember 17, 2000
Services
Preceding station TransMilenio Following station
Calle 19
towards Calle 76
A Tercer Milenio
Terminus
Avenida Jiménez (F)
General information
LocationAvenida Caracas between Calles 11 and 13
Los Mártires
Line(s)Caracas
Platforms3
History
Opened2003
Services
Preceding station TransMilenio Following station
Terminus F De La Sabana
Museo del Oro
towards Las Aguas
J Terminus
San Diego
Terminus
L Las Nieves

Avenida Jiménez is a transfer station, part of the TransMilenio mass-transit system of Bogotá, Colombia.

Location

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The station is located in the heart of downtown Bogotá, specifically at the intersection of Avenida Jiménez with Avenida Caracas.

History

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Buses of TransMilenio in the station Avenida Jimenez.

The station entered operation on December 17, 2000 as part of the original Transmilenio system, only to be closed a year later for construction of the Eje Ambiental, which was opened in 2002.

After the opening of the Jiménez-Calle 13 trunk, the station was converted from a simple station into an interchange between the aforementioned trunk and Avenida Caracas with five platforms. The station serves an average of 500,000 passengers per day.

The station has three entrances: one on Avenida Caracas with Calle 11, another on Avenida Jiménez with Carrera 12, and one on the south-east intersection of Avenida Caracas with Avenida Jiménez, which has access to the underground foot tunnel.

It serves the La Capuchina, Santa Inés, and San Victorino neighborhoods.

This station has a "Punto de Encuentro" or point of gathering, which has bathrooms, coffeeshop, parking for bicycles and a tourist attention booth.

After the inauguration of the trunk Jiménez-Calle 13, what was a simple station became an interchange between the Jiménez-Calle 13 and that of Caracas Avenue with 5 wagons in service. As such the station has a full attendance of 500,000 daily users on average.

Together with the Ricaurte and Universidades-Las Aguas stations, it is one of three transfer stations of TransMilenio.

On August 29, during the national agrarian strike in Colombia, attacks against this station of the system were recorded on the wagons corresponding to Avenida Jiménez with Carrera 12, Leaving multiple damages and material losses. However, the next day the station was running normally with new infrastructure.

On May 1, 2015, during the marches of International Workers Day, a new attack against this station was registered, in the same wagons of Carrera 12 with the avenue Jiménez, where 16 people were injured and a loss of 5 million pesos caused.

Station services

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Old trunk services/Caracas

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Services rendered until April 29, 2006
Kind Routes Frequency
Current 2 Portal Norte 3 Portal Norte Every 3 minutes on average
Express Expreso 20 Expreso 30 Expreso 50 Expreso 70 Expreso 90 Every 2 minutes on average
Express Dominical Expreso Dominical 15 Expreso Dominical 25 Every 3 or 4 minutes on average

Old trunk services/Américas

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Services rendered until April 29, 2006
Kind Routes Frequency
Current Every 3 minutes on average
Express Expreso 10 Expreso 120 Expreso 170 Every 2 minutes on average
Super Express Expreso 400 Every 2 minutes on average
Express Dominical Expreso Dominical 35 Expreso Dominical 45 Every 3 or 4 minutes on average

Main line service/Caracas

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Service as of April 29, 2006
Type Northern Routes Southern Routes Western Routes
Local
3 8
3 8
Express Monday through Saturday
All day
D20 B73
H20 H74 L10
K10
Express Monday through Saturday
Morning rush
D51
Express Monday through Friday
Mixed service, rush and non-rush
B27 C17
H27 H17
Express Saturday
All Day
C17
H17
Express Sundays and holidays
B92 B93
H92 H93 L97
K97

Main line service/Américas

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Service as of April 29, 2006
Type Northern Routes Eastern Routes Western Routes
Local
5
5
Express Monday through Saturday
All day
J23
F23
Express Monday through Saturday
Morning rush
J70
Express Sundays and holidays C91
M99
F91 F99

Feeder routes

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This station does not have connections to feeder routes.

Inter-city service

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This station does not have inter-city service.

See also

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