page_title: Urquiza Line
section_title: Urquiza line today
hierarchical_section_title: Urquiza Line / Urquiza line today
caption_attribution_description: English: An Urquiza Line EMU leaving Villa Ortúzar station. The train is painted in the original Ferrocarriles Argentinos livery.
context_page_description: The Urquiza Line is a 26 km suburban electric commuter rail line in Buenos Aires, Argentina, operated by the Buenos Aires Underground operator Metrovías. It runs from the Federico Lacroze terminus in the neighborhood of Chacarita, to General Lemos terminus in Campo de Mayo district of Greater Buenos Aires, completing a total journey time of 46 minutes. The line uses third rail current collection and, at present, is used by an average of 75,400 passengers daily. The line operates 20 hours a day, 7 days a week at 8 to 30 minute intervals. This suburban line runs on track once operated by General Urquiza Railway before railway privatisation.
  In earlier times the line was planned to run into the centre of Buenos Aires, through a long tunnel. But when the tunnel was finally built in 1930, it was taken over by the Underground system as part of Line B, and as a result, suburban passengers had to change at Federico Lacroze, named after its builder, about 6 km from the centre. The ramp connecting the Urquiza Line to Line B still exists, though it is only used for maintenance purposes. Today Federico Lacroze has a direct connection to the line B underground station of the same name.
context_section_description: The number of passengers carried by the Urquiza Line has increased steadily in recent years and several improvements have been made, including adapting stations for the disabled, grade crossings improvements, new concrete sleepers and welded rail joints for the entire line and up-dated electrical components.
  In the meantime, it is still possible that the rebuilding of the existing ramp at Federico Lacroze underground station would allow connection to Line B, enabling trains to run through to the centre of Buenos Aires, a dilemma which is uncertain at this moment, simply because the UTA (Unión Tranviarios Automotor, in English; Tram Drivers' Union) and Rail Unions are not compatible with each other and therefore do not agree on it.
  When the Red de Expresos Regionales was announced in 2015 as a project to connect all lines of the Buenos Aires commuter rail network through a series of tunnels, the Urquiza Line was curiously the only line left out of the project, despite being the only line with the infrastructure already in place to bring commuters directly to the project's planned central station. 
  In June 2019 the line was deemed to the most crowded in the world by Google based on crowdedness reports by its users.
caption: Some EMUs still carry their original Ferrocarriles Argentinos livery.
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