Puente Cal y Canto metro station

Puente Cal y Canto
Santiago Metro station
Cal y Canto station in 2017
Coordinates	33°25′59.13″S 70°39′6.58″W / 33.4330917°S 70.6518278°W / -33.4330917; -70.6518278Coordinates: 33°25′59.13″S 70°39′6.58″W / 33.4330917°S 70.6518278°W / -33.4330917; -70.6518278
Line(s)	Line 2 Line 3 (under construction)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Transantiago buses
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	September 15, 1987 [1]
Services
Preceding station   Santiago Metro   Following station Patronato toward Vespucio Norte Line 2 Santa Ana toward La Cisterna Hospitales toward Los Libertadores Line 3 Under construction Plaza de Armas toward Fernando Castillo Velasco

Puente Cal y Canto is an underground metro station on the Line 2 (and a Ghost Station on the side of line 3) of the Santiago Metro, in Santiago, Chile. Originally named Mapocho, it was renamed to Puente Cal y Canto shortly after its opening. This name is taken from the former bridge on the Mapocho River, whose remains were found during the construction of the station. The station's platforms walls have a decoration that resembles the architecture of the mentioned bridge. Until 2004 the station was the northern terminus of the Line 2.

Nearby points of interest are the Estación Mapocho Culture Center and the Santiago Seafood Market.

line 3

The platforms of the original project of the future line 3 are located underneath the line 2 side of the station.

This sector is located to the east of the station, or direction Vespucio norte at the two ends of the platform, a large space totally empty, with clear evidence that something is missing, and it is possible to see such structures, who were analized and rectified, in the place of the ticket counter corresponds to the place where goes the passage seen in the image 1, and the side structures have to be removed, so it will be appreciated the view point downwards, towards the line 3. To the sides of this structure the stairs are found, there is an evident door, that connects with such station. That red wall that can be seen is clearly provisional, it isn't totally solid, as well as the unions with the concrete ceiling that is notably not coincident. Recently some metro offices have been built in that site.

Also, it is possible to see some metal partitions that are yellow in color in to staircases (of the two platforms) towards the superior mesanine of the station. Supposedly, it hides some possible ways of access (stairs) towards the platform of the line 3.

The platforms that will be destined to the construction of the future station and that where built jointly with the now operational, will not be used be used. Metro modified the location of the work, placing it a few metros to the west (in direction vespucio Norte-La Cisterna), by the fact that the line 3 will go underneath Calle Bandera and not by the axis Puente-Ahumada (according to the original project) also that the fact that the trains that will be used (AS 14) will be of wide body, unlike the NS 74 trains of the epoch.

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