Subway

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"Lineas de Subte"

The underground subway system in Buenos Aires is known as the SUBTE, short for subterráneo (underground).  It is the first underground subway system built in Latin America.  It also has the reputation of being the first subway system in the world to be privatized during that binge of privatizations that took place in Argentina during the 1990s.
Organizationally, this system contains five separate lines (named easily Line A, Line B, Line C, Line D and Line E) that were constructed one after another.  Line A is the oldest and still carries the original subway cars with the antique wood-framed interiors.  Physically, the system design is in the form of a fork.  To go from one station of one line to another station on another line means going down to the center and coming back.  A map is shown below: