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Izvor
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| Location |
| Place |
Izvor |
| Sector |
Sector 1 |
| Statistics |
| Type of station |
Underground |
| Platforms in use |
2 |
| Platform arrangement |
Lateral platforms |
| History |
| Opening date |
November 1979 |
| Bucharest Metro |
|
Izvor is a metro station in Bucharest, located near the Palace of the Parliament. It also services one of the buildings of the Bucharest Veterinary University , the Gheorghe Lazăr High School and the Cişmigiu Gardens.
It was built in 1979 as part of the first line of the Bucharest metro, on the right bank of the Dâmboviţa river, in what was then the Izvor neighbourhood (the entire area on the right bank of the Dâmboviţa river was demolished four years later during Ceauşescu's systematization plans in order to make way for the Palace of the Parliament). The station itself is shallow, with two lateral platforms allowing access to the centrally positioned tracks. There is no vestibule - the station is too shallow to allow for a level to be built above the tracks, and the architects of the Bucharest Metro did not fashion building above-ground vestibules such as those found in Moscow or London. As such, the ticketing machines are on the same level with the tracks themselves. As all entrances are on the southbound platform, the architects designed a passage running beneath the tracks to provide access from the soutbound platform to the northbound platform, a solution unique on the entire system.
The station itself uses a dark gray color scheme, employing cold white lighting. The station is quite small, being initially built to service a rather low-density residential area.
