Colectivo Line 60 | |
Parent: | DOTA Group |
Headquarters: | Escobar central bus station |
Locale: | Buenos Aires metropolitan area |
Service Area: | Southwestern District of Barracas, Buenos Aires CBD, northwestern Tigre, Buenos Aires and Belén de Escobar |
Service Type: | Local and express |
Began Operation: | 1931 |
Fleet: | 400 |
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Operator: | M.O.N.S.A. |
The Colectivo 60 (the number 60 bus route) commenced operations in 1931 and runs from Constitución station, in the centre of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina to the Tigre Club in the partido of Tigre. The service is operated by Transportes Larrazabal C.I.S.A, DOTA and MOTSA and the identifying colour of the buses is white and red with black details.
Known locally as El Sesenta ("The Sixty"), the service is sometimes dubbed El Internacional (The International) because it passes through (or close to) many landmarks of the city and of the northern suburbs, including:
Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry
Faculty of Social Sciences (Marcelo T. de Alvear branch)
Faculty of Engineering (Las Heras branch)
Hospital de Clínicas "José de San Martín"
One branch of the service reaches Tigre via the Pan-American Highway.