The transfer station Avenida Jiménez is part of the TransMilenio mass-transit system of Bogotá, Colombia, opened in the year 2000.
Location
The station is located in the heart of downtown Bogotá, specifically at the intersection of Avenida Jiménez with Avenida Caracas.
History
Buses of TransMilenio in the station Avenida Jimenez.
The station entered operation on December 17, 2000 as part of the original Transmilenio system, only to be closed a year later for construction of the Eje Ambiental, which was opened in 2002.
After the opening of the Jiménez-Calle 13 trunk, the station was converted from a simple station into an interchange between the aforementioned trunk and Avenida Caracas with five platforms. The station serves an average of 500,000 passengers per day.
The station has three entrances: one on Avenida Caracas with Calle 11, another on Avenida Jiménez with Carrera 12, and one on the south-east intersection of Avenida Caracas with Avenida Jiménez, which has access to the underground foot tunnel.
It serves the La Capuchina, Santa Inés, and San Victorino neighborhoods.
This station has a "Punto de Encuentro" or point of gathering, which has bathrooms, coffeeshop, parking for bicycles and a tourist attention booth.
After the inauguration of the trunk Jiménez-Calle 13, what was a simple station became a station of exchange between that trunk with the one of the Caracas Avenue with 5 wagons in service. As such the station has a full attendance of 500,000 daily users on average.
Together with the Ricaurte and Universidades-Las Aguas stations, it is one of three transfer stations of TransMilenio.
On August 29, during the national agrarian strike in Colombia, attacks against this station of the system were recorded on the wagons corresponding to Avenida Jiménez with Carrera 12, Leaving multiple damages and material losses. However, the next day the station was running normally with new infrastructure.
On May 1, 2015, during the marches of International Workers Day, a new attack against this station was registered, in the same wagons of Carrera 12 with the avenue Jiménez, where 16 people were injured and a loss of 5 million pesos caused.
Station services
Old trunk services/Caracas
Services rendered until April 29, 2006
Kind
Routes
Frequency
Current
Every 3 minutes on average
Express
Every 2 minutes on average
Express Dominical
Every 3 or 4 minutes on average
Old trunk services/Américas
Services rendered until April 29, 2006
Kind
Routes
Frequency
Current
Every 3 minutes on average
Express
Every 2 minutes on average
Super Express
Every 2 minutes on average
Express Dominical
Every 3 or 4 minutes on average
Main line service/Caracas
Service as of April 29, 2006
Type
Northern Routes
Southern Routes
Western Routes
Local
3
8
3
8
Express Monday through Saturday All day
D20
B73
H20
H74
L10
K10
Express Monday through Saturday Morning rush
D51
Express Monday through Friday Mixed service, rush and non-rush
B27
C17
H27
H17
Express Saturday All Day
C17
H17
Express Sundays and holidays
B92
B93
H92
H93
L97
K97
Main line service/Américas
Service as of April 29, 2006
Type
Northern Routes
Eastern Routes
Western Routes
Local
5
5
Express Monday through Saturday All day
J23
F23
Express Monday through Saturday Morning rush
J70
Express Sundays and holidays
C91
M99
F91
F99
Feeder routes
This station does not have connections to feeder routes.
