Abstract

MARQUEZ ESTRADA, José Wilson. Electric Local Train in Medellin, Colombia and Its Contribution to Urban Modernization Process: 1920-1951. Historelo.rev.hist.reg.local [online]. 2012, vol.4, n.7, pp.129-156. ISSN 2145-132X.

This article analyses the experience of the first mass transportation system in the city of Medellin, Colombia: the electric local train. It analyses the emergence, the construction and the consolidation process of this mean of transport. Its operation as an official business project is studied as well as the different circumstances that led it to be the axe of the road system, and the crises that finally caused its decline and closure. Also, the impact of this work on the process of urban modernization lived by the city from 1920 to 1951 is here described and analyzed

Keywords : modernization; transport; local; train; city; company; city planning.

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