Hello #Vivers! Madrid residents are very proud of their public transport network and specifically of their metro. Students who come to study Spanish in Madrid soon realize that on the metro they can go practically to all parts of the city without having to use the car. Did you know that the Madrid metro is one of the oldest and largest in the world? If you want to know this and any other curiosity, be sure to read this article in our “Did you know…?” section.
The Madrid metro. Did you know…?
- The works to install the metro network in Madrid began on September 19, 1916. Three years later, King Alfonso XIII inaugurated this modern means of transport.
- The first Madrid Metro ticket cost 15 cents each way. The hours of operation were from 6:20 in the morning until 2:00 in the morning.
- The length of all lines amounts to 324 kilometers, making it the seventh longest metro network in the world behind Moscow, Tokyo, Paris, London, Shanghai and New York.
- The station where the most lines converge is at Avenida de América with four in total. The line with the most stations is number 1 with 33 stops, but the one that travels the longest distance is line 12, making a total of 40,96 kilometers.
- One of the distinctive features of the Madrid Metro is that its trains run on the left, when most Spanish railway infrastructure runs on the right.
- The Alto del Arenal station (line 1) is much more important than it seems, since it is home to the Central Post that controls everything that happens in the Madrid underground.
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