Sunday, March 31, 2019

Evolution of transport in Argentina



Evolution of transport in Argentina


Through the history of the Buenos Aires’ underground railways (Subte) and analyzing this period, matches with the metropolization of  Buenos Aires and goes from the emergence of the early projects (1886) to the completion of the main underground network (1944), a  period in which the city became a modern metropolis.


Resultado de imagen para buenos aires


Buenos Aires, Argentina.

One of the most important cultural features of urban transportation, for example of the railroad network in this city is that it emerged for the need to search most effective ways to carry raw materials to the new factories on the Industrial Revolution. The key aspects of this transport mean impact are:
  • In the economic aspect, stands the increase of commercial exchange and the foreign capital inversions in this region; It searched a fast adaptation to the needs of the global economy for the aument the progress and the richness.
  • In the territorial aspect, have an urban trains service that rove to the internal urban space.
  • In the environmental aspect, the damage that this transport mean produces is less than that of other cars and motorcycles. However, some of the materials for road construction had a negative impact on nature.

The Subte was a technological artifact that materialized the culture of progress by strengthening the confidence that scientific and technological advances improve the social life; second, amended the urban space, its uses and perceptions; and finally, the experience of traveling put in question that confidence in the progress.

The cultural significance of urban traffic as a sign of the progress of the metropolis led to Buenos Aires, as well as other major cities in Europe and North America, an instrument the subway system for public passenger transport with the purpose to offer a fast, convenient and safe, and to avoid congestion in the city center at the same time that contributed to the suburbanization


Resultado de imagen para subterraneo en buenos aires
To conclude it can be said that:

   Mobility planning is an essential tool to generate social equity, with greater accessibility and better quality of life.
   The evolution in these means have had goods and bads impacts, however, stands that have contributed to the development of this country in its economy. 





Bibliographic References

Bahia, L. (14 de Agosto de 2007). El impacto de la red ferroviaria en Argentina. Recuperado el 24 de Marzo de 2019, de Monografias.com: https://www.monografias.com/trabajos26/red-ferroviaria-argentina/red-ferroviaria-argentina.shtml

Zunino Singh, D. (17 de Abril de 2013). El Subte como artefacto cultural (Buenos Aires. 1886 - 1944). Recuperado el 27 de Marzo de 2019, de Revista Transporte y Territorio: http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/rtt/article/view/310/288


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