Survival Guide to BUENOS AIRES PUBLIC TRANSPORT | *I Wish I knew THIS Before*

I don't know about you but when I go to a new city especially if I don't speak the language the idea of taking public transportation is totally overwhelming even though I used to live in Buenos Aires several years ago everything had changed when I came back this year I took the bus wrong so many times before I finally figured it out so if you're coming to Buenos Aires I want to help you get from puntoa to puntobe much more easily and comfortably Buenos Aires has four main ways to move around the city of course taxis trains soup day which is the subway and colectivos which are buses all of these modes of transportation obviously accept the taxi can be used with the sube card there was a period of time in Buenos Aires where finding a sube card was super difficult they were totally scarce but I think we've entered back into a period of time where you can get a Subway card at most kioskos when I first lived in Buenos Aires in 2005 you had to use coins every time you took the subway and coins every time you took the bus so having this sube card is a total Lifesaver it makes your life so much more convenient you should be able to get this sube card from any kiosko around the city just look for the blue Subway sign in the window you should also be able to purchase a card in the soup day stations when I purchased my survey card back in January it was 120 pesos it may have increased a bit due to inflation but generally it's around 60 cents so now that you've purchased the card you need to add extra money onto it to ride the transportation you can load it or reload it at any kiosko with the sube sign or in the soup taste stations just look for that big yellow or blue box and that's where you can reload the prompts are very easy to follow but basically just put your card on the scanner follow the prompts on the screen to reload and add money put in the money let the card recharged and you're good to go the soup day which is short for soup terraneo Subterranean Subway in Buenos Aires has six lines a b c d e and H Lion's agency go north to south and cross over the other lines and the other lines generally come from their respective Corners outside of the city and come towards Plaza de Marshall where Casa rosala is the Buenos Aires soup day system is not perfect and at times it's annoying for example if you want to go from Almagro to Palermo there's nothing that goes direct you have to take the a to the e to the D so not super convenient overall however the soup day system is super efficient trains do come pretty often every once in a while a train won't come or there's piketeros picaders but generally the system works also a lot of the cars have been updated and they do feel really safe inside I mean people have their phones out they're just on their phones on the Metro on the soup day like in any other major city I do want to tell you though about the subtleties of line a now in most soup day stations you can enter from any entrance at all go down choose the direction you want to go scan your card and go in a however is a little bit different because the Stations don't connect underground and they go in opposite directions of traffic so kind of opposite of what your intuition might think so if you need to go to Plaza de Macho do not go down on the side where the traffic is headed towards Placida Marshall cross the street and go down there the other very strange thing about line a is that stops Pasco and Alberti are basically the same station even though there's several blocks away and the reason I say that is because the train doesn't stop at each station in each direction for example the train only stops at the Pasco station when it's going two plus a day my show on the way back it skips over and it stops at Alberti instead and vice versa so the train does not stop at Alberti on the way to place it in my show it stops at Pasco just in case you get lost while using the soup day there is an app it's not the best app but it's something it's very basic and they seem to not have made any updates since new stations have been added so for example on line H it says that the last stop is Boulevard when in fact the last stop is retiro and on the yellow line H it says that the last stop is Las eras when in reality it should be that has definitely gotten me on the wrong train a time before so the process for getting on and off the train is super easy with your sube card once you figure out the direction you want to go just enter the turnstile and scan your card on the top for some reason they have scanners on the side too which never works so just make sure you're using the top scanner then just enter follow the signs get on the train when you're leaving you do not need to scan your card to get off so you can put that card away the price of one soup They Ride is around 30 pesos a city bus in the city of Buenos Aires is called a Colectivo or a Bondi now Buenos Aires has a fantastic bus system what the soup they lacks the bus covers so maybe you can't go directly from Almagro to Palermo on the soup day but you definitely can on a bus and quicker and the buses come often I rarely had to wait longer than five minutes for a bus especially in the middle of the day so getting on the bus or the Colectivo in Buenos Aires is slightly more complicated than the soup day and it can be intimidating the first time you do it and it's definitely where I messed up the first time when I was back in Buenos Aires when you get on the bus you actually need to tell the driver where you're getting off because then he pushes a button and that determines how much he's going to charge you so I recommend checking Google Maps before you get on the bus so you know exactly where you're getting off look at the name of the street where you're getting off where the stop is so then when you get on the bus tell the bus driver the name of the street and then you can hold up your card he'll push in his little button and then once the scanner beeps then you can go through you'll see that it beeps and it has a little green check that's when you know it's okay the price of the Colectivo is generally between 18 pesos to 30 pesos depending on where you're going you always enter the bus on the front and then exit the bus in the last two doors the center door and the back door there's also little buttons on the poles that are orange with a black button and you can push that to alert the driver that you're getting off at the next stop one thing that I really like about the bus system in Buenos Aires is that on the main Avenues they have very deliberate bus lanes it makes it so much easier to find the bus because when the bus stops are on the side of the road they kind of camouflage and blend in but when they're in the center it's like a big bus Center so you can see where all the buses are going you can see the names of the stops it's really easy to find buses to get on and off trains and Buenos Aires while you don't use them quite as much when you're traveling within the city they're definitely handy to have when you're going to places a little bit outside of the city although every once in a while within the city they are more convenient depending on where you're going the main train line that you might use the most is the mitral line and the reason I say that is because that's the line that leaves from retiro station and goes to both San Ysidro and Tigre which are great locations to check out if you're more curious about the train stations and where they go check out the blog that's listed in the description below because I've listed there the names of the trains and the station that they start at and where they go to like any major city taxis are everywhere sometimes they're easier to catch and sometimes they're frustratingly hard like at six in the morning when you're trying to go to the airport but generally it works just like it does in any other big city you just go to one of the main streets taxis are passing you put your hand out and wave a taxi down and he'll stop get in standard however there are apps the ba taxi app I think is one of the better ones because it's connected with actual taxi drivers in the city so they're taxi drivers who drive a taxi as a profession and they know the city super well and Buenos Aires does have Uber it's a pretty good option when you're coming from the airport I haven't really seen Uber used outside of Buenos Aires they didn't use it in the north they didn't use it in court of the way so it's mostly just concentrated in the capital but it is an option the other two apps are DD and cabify they work the same as Uber you create an account fill in your information request a driver even if I don't end up using an app I do like to test sometimes just to see about what the price would be to go from point A to point B and I do suggest every single time to select the cash pay option you don't want to pay for anything with your credit card in Argentina as always you can find more information about this topic on my blog which is linked in the description below and click on this video here so you can learn about Western Union and how to get your money and if you found this video beneficial to you at all I would appreciate it so much if you could give me a like And subscribe to see more content from Argentina why not

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Published: Wed Oct 05 2022