Colectivo 60
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The Colectivo 60 (the number 60 bus) runs from Constitucion 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 MONSA (Micro Omnibus Norte Sociedad Anónima) and the identifying color of the buses is yellow, with red and black details.
Known locally as El Sesenta (The Number 60) the service is sometimes dubbed El Internacional (The International) because it passes through (or close to) a large number of landmarks of the city and of the northern suburbs, to wit:
- Boca Juniors stadium
- Constitucion station
- Avenida de Mayo
- Liceo theater
- Argentine National Congress
- Confitería El Molino tea room and the Savoy hotel and ballroom
- Callao y Corrientes commercial district
- Tribunales (courthouse)
- Obras Sanitarias building, Córdoba y Ayacucho
- Buenos Aires university complex:
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Odontology
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry
- Faculty of Social Science
- Faculty of Engineering, Las Heras building
- Clínicas university hospital
- Embassy of Uruguay
- La Recoleta Cemetery
- Recoleta entertainment district
- Automóvil Club Argentino
- Plaza Las Heras
- Rivadavia hospital
- Fernández hospital
- Buenos Aires Zoo in Palermo
- Buenos Aires Botanical Garden in Palermo.
- SRA exhibition grounds (La Rural)
- Plaza Italia
- United States embassy
- Pacífico train station
- Palermo racetrack
- Military hospital
- Barrancas de Belgrano park and transportation hub
- Chinatown, Bajo Belgrano
- Club Atlético River Plate Stadium
- Cabildo y Juramento (Belgrano high street)
- Cabildo y Congreso (terminal of the subte D line)
- Saavedra bridge
- Olivos city center
- Club Atletico Platense stadium
- San Isidro hospital (San Isidro Partido)
- San Isidro racetrack
- San Isidro cathedral
- Tigre stadium (Tigre Partido)
- Tigre fruit market
- Tigre tourism center (gateway to the Paraná Delta).
One branch of the service reaches Tigre through the Pan-American Highway.
On November 13, 2006, MONSA contract drivers went on strike demanding better conditions [1].
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