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Lujerului metro station

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Lujerului metro station, previously known as Armata Poporului is a metro station in the Militari neighborhood of Bucharest. It is located at the intersection of Lujerului and Iuliu Maniu Avenues, close to the Lujerului road-tunnel, near the Cotroceni Freight Railway Terminal, the Lujerului Silo, Mills and Bread Factory, and next to the Cora Lujerului hypermarket. The metro station also services the Plaza Romania mall. It was opened on 19 August 1983 as part of the extension from Eroilor to Industriilor and currently serves M3. The station is also of the central platform design, slightly narrower than Politehnica, also built in marble and featuring a color scheme based on white, crimson and shades of gray. The previous name of the station comes from the former name of the easternmost portion of the Iuliu Maniu Avenue, that was formerly known as Armata Poporului (People's Army). The name of the avenue was changed in 1997 to honor Iuliu Maniu, an inter-war Romanian statesman and to remove all the remaining communist symbolism. However, the name of the metro station stuck, in part because of the reluctance of Metrorex to change station names. In 2009, the name of the station was finally changed to Lujerului, the name of a nearby street and road tunnel. The light rail line 41, which goes from Ghencea to Piaţa Presei Libere also passes near this metro station.

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Lujerului metro station
Bulevardul Iuliu Maniu, Bucharest Militari

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Bulevardul Iuliu Maniu
061111 Bucharest, Militari
Romania
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Militari
Militari

Militari is a district in the western part of Bucharest, in Sector 6. It is home to more than 100,000 inhabitants. In the past a village called "Militari" existed here, but today there are only few houses left from that time. The earliest housing scheme comprises small, semi-detached houses, which have been built in the 1950s by Communist party workers, with the first tower blocks being built in 1966–1967. Later, in the 1970s and 1980s, most of the present-day blocks of flats (with 8 and 10 floors) were built. Amongst the well-known apartment buildings are the B22 Block, built from 1977 to 1979 by Yugoslav architects, the 15-storey tower blocks at Lujerului (right next to the so-called Serbian block, also designed by Yugoslav architects, completed in 1974), and the OD16 block, initially built sometime between 1972 and 1975, but fully collapsed during the 1977 Vrancea earthquake due to substandard construction practices (it was eventually rebuilt in 1978). The neighborhood features a few markets, including Gorjului, Lujerului, and Apusului (similar markets are found in most communist-era housing estates, such as the Sălăjan market in Titan, as well as the Moghioroș and Orizont markets in Drumul Taberei).The district is very compact and it was built using a basic three parallel boulevards geometry. Militari is packed between Drumul Taberei and Crângași districts, and it is one of the westernmost neighborhoods of Bucharest. It is served by the Bucharest Metro, buses, trolleybuses, and tramways which connect it with the city center and the Gara de Nord railway station. Because of its access to the A1 motorway, the district developed rapidly following the Romanian Revolution of 1989, transforming itself in one of the most prosperous neighborhoods of Bucharest. In recent years the district saw the opening of two hypermarkets (Cora and Carrefour), and a large mall ("Plaza Romania"). The district has a new theatre ("Masca") and a modern cinema ("Movieplex").

Petrache Poenaru metro station
Petrache Poenaru metro station

Petrache Poenaru, formerly known as Semănătoarea is a metro station in Bucharest, Romania, servicing the Bucharest Metro Line M1. It was named after Semănătoarea, an agricultural machinery factory located in the vicinity, but it is now named after Petrache Poenaru, a Romanian inventor of the Enlightenment era. The metro station services both what is left of the factory (that was severely downsized a number of times), part of the Regie student campus located in the vicinity, the Sema Park industrial Park, as well as some newly built residential areas. The station was designed with relatively little traffic in mind; it has a central-track design with two narrow platforms on each side of the tracks. The station opened on 19 November 1979, initially as a temporary terminus of the first subway line of Bucharest, making it one of the initial 6 stations of the Bucharest Metro to enter commercial service, from Semănătoarea to Timpuri Noi. On 22 December 1984, the line was extended further to Crângași. It is also located close to the Semănătoarea (Ciurel) Metro Depot. The walls of the Petrache Poenaru metro station are made of yellow and beige tiles with the floor being built in uniform yellow mosaic pieces. The station entrance is unusual in that it faces the street at an angle of 90 degrees and is just a few metres from the road. It was one of the least used stations in the city at some point, but recently, industrial and residential projects in the area have increased the station's usage.