The Urquiza Line operates from Federico Lacroze railway station to General Lemos and, when combined with the Underground, have a total of 108 stations, 72.9 kilometres of track, with 692 carriages that transport 283.8 million passengers per year. The company has approximately 3,000 employees.
^MK, BN consortium running Argentine commuter lines Railway Age February 1994 page 42
^MK buys control of Argentine shop Railway Age July 1993 page 19
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metrovías, argentine, privately, owned, company, that, operates, buenos, aires, underground, metropolitan, services, urquiza, line, shares, held, grupo, roggio, train, buenos, aires, underground, sline, operated, typesociedad, anónimapredecessorsubterráneos, b. Metrovias S A is an Argentine privately owned company that operates the Buenos Aires Underground and the Metropolitan services of the Urquiza Line 2 3 90 of Metrovias shares are held by Grupo Roggio 4 5 Metrovias S A Train of the Buenos Aires Underground sLine D operated by MetroviasTypeSociedad AnonimaPredecessorSubterraneos de Buenos Aires SBA Founded1 January 1994HeadquartersBuenos Aires ArgentinaArea servedCity of Buenos AiresKey peopleBenito Roggio ownerServicesMaintenance repair and operationsOwnerGrupo RoggioNumber of employees4 500 1 ParentGrupo RoggioWebsiteMetrovias Contents 1 History 2 See also 3 References 4 External linksHistory editOn 1 January 1994 Metrovias took over the concession granted by the Argentine government as part of railway privatisation during the presidency of Carlos Menem for the operation of the standard gauge Urquiza Line commuter rail service in Buenos Aires Argentina 6 The Metrovias consortium comprised Burlington Northern Morrison Knudsen and two Argentinian companies 7 This service had previously been run by the state owned Ferrocarriles Argentinos as part of the General Urquiza Railway since the nationalisation of the railways in 1948 In addition Metrovias took over the management of the Buenos Aires Underground system and the Buenos Aires PreMetro when they were privatised in 1994 The Urquiza Line operates from Federico Lacroze railway station to General Lemos and when combined with the Underground have a total of 108 stations 72 9 kilometres of track with 692 carriages that transport 283 8 million passengers per year The company has approximately 3 000 employees From 2004 to 2013 the company also formed part of UGOFE a consortium with Trenes de Buenos Aires and Ferrovias which took over the running of commuter rail services on the Belgrano Sur Line Roca Line and San Martin Line after concessions granted to Metropolitano S A for the operation of these services were revoked citation needed See also editBuenos Aires Underground Urquiza Line Buenos Aires PreMetroReferences edit Que es Metrovias company information Trenes le dan a Roggio el Mitre y el San Martin y a Emepa el Roca y el Belgrano Sur La Nacion 12 Feb 2014 Las privadas volveran a operar la mayoria de las lineas ferroviarias Clarin 12 Feb 2014 Transporte at Grupo Roggio website Archive Inversores Metrovias website MK BN consortium running Argentine commuter lines Railway Age February 1994 page 42 MK buys control of Argentine shop Railway Age July 1993 page 19External links editOfficial website nbsp Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Metrovias amp oldid 1154377547, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
