Peñota_(Bilbao_metro)

Peñota (Bilbao metro)

Peñota (Bilbao metro)

Rapid transit station in Portugalete, Basque Country, Spain

Peñota is a station on line 2 of the Bilbao metro. It is named after the neighborhood of Peñota, in the municipality of Santurtzi, however all the station entrances are within the Portugalete city limits.[citation needed] It opened on 4 July 2009.[3]

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There is a station on the Cercanías Bilbao commuter railway network with the same name, but the two stations are not connected.

Station layout

Peñota station follows the typical cavern-shaped layout of most underground Metro Bilbao stations designed by Norman Foster, with the main hall located directly above the rail tracks. Alongside Indautxu, Peñota is one of the few stations in the network to incorporate an underground commercial gallery.

Access

  • Libertador Simón Bolívar Av. (Simón Bolívar exit, closed during night time services)
  • Peñota Av. (San Juan de Dios exit, commercial gallery)
  • San Juan Bautista St. (San Juan Bautista exit)

Services

The station is served by line 2 from Kabiezes to Basauri with headways from five to ten minutes.[citation needed] Bus stops near the station are served by Bizkaibus regional services.

References

  1. [1]
    "Estaciones - Peñota". Metro Bilbao (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Metro en cifras". Metro Bilbao (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  3. [3]
    Morán, Unai (17 June 2009). "Santurtzi recibirá el metro el 4 de julio". El Correo (in Spanish). Barakaldo. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
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