During the early hours of this Monday, Metro de Santiago reported that It would begin its service with the Bío Bío station on Line 6 closed.
In the official account of the company in X they specified that “due to the complexity of the water drainage works on the tracks of the Bío Bío station”, your service on Line 6 It will operate from Cerrillos to Franklin and from Ñuble to Los Leones.
For this reason, the regional public transportation system Red reported that it arranged support buses that will operate on a route parallel to Line 6, in a loop between Pedro Aguirre Cerda and Ñuble. Besides, They reinforced services 113, 115, 125, H07, H04, i01.
The Bío Bío station remained closed on Sunday due to the accumulation of water after the intense rainfall that was recorded during Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Initially expected to return to be operational around 12:30 this Sundaysomething that was finally postponed by Metro.
At the moment it is unknown how long the work will last and Metro indicates that they will be reporting on progress through its communication channels.
“We regret the inconvenience and continue working to get the station up and running,” indicated the state.
As they added in a subsequent message, “due to the Efe transportation strike, the L2 express route will be suspended to reinforce transportation in the southern area of Santiago.”
