Portal de Usme (TransMilenio)

Portal de Usme is one of the terminal stations in the TransMilenio mass-transit system of Bogotá, Colombia, opened in the year 2000.

The portal is located in the southeastern part of the city, specifically on Avenida Caracas, south of La Picota National Penitentiary, at the intersection with the extension of Avenida Boyacá.

The portal is accessed via a pedestrian entrance a few meters south of Calle 65C Sur.

The portal serves the neighborhoods of Porvenir, Barranquillita, Nuevo San Andrés, La Aurora, and the surrounding areas.

In August 2001, a few months after the system's inauguration, the Usme Portal was opened, becoming the second terminal station of the TransMilenio system to become operational.

On December 31, 2001, the recklessness of a Panamericano bus driver resulted in the first fatality on the TransMilenio system. The accident occurred as the bus was approaching the Usme Portal when it entered the TransMilenio lane.

On February 2, 2002, the police thwarted a dynamite attack against this portal. Six bomb cylinders were seized.^[1]

Following a complaint filed by a user regarding the lack of accessibility for disabled people on feeder buses at the Usme Portal, the entire fleet of feeder buses was renewed on March 25, 2005.

Since August 1, 2009, the Portal has had a BibloRed library station, located in the tunnel next to the access stairs. It is a space where users can consult books and participate in free activities.^[2]

Since approximately 2013, the Portal has included the Publio Martínez Ardila Theater near the maintenance yard, where the system's buses are parked and maintained. This theater, with a capacity of 172 people in its auditorium, regularly offers free performances and cultural presentations to the community.^[3][4]

The following feeder routes also operate:

• 3-2 circular route to the Santa Librada neighborhood
• 3-3 circular route to the Chuniza neighborhood
• 3-4 circular route to the Alfonso López neighborhood
• 3-5 circular route to the Usminia neighborhood
• 3-8 circular route to the Virrey neighborhood
• 3-9 circular route to the Marichuela neighborhood
• 3-10 circular route to Usme Centro (former village of Usme)
• 3-11 circular to the La Fiscala neighborhood
• 3-12 circular route to the neighborhoods La Esperanza Sur - El Bosque
• 3-13 circular to the Nebraska neighborhood
• 3-14 circular route to the El Uval neighborhood

The following urban route works in the same way:

• H729 circular route to the La Aurora neighborhood
• H735 circular route to the El Uval neighborhood

The following urban routes also operate in the same way SITPon the outer sides of the station, circulating along the mixed traffic lanes above the Avenida Caracas, with the possibility of transferring using the tarjeta TuLlave:^[5]

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