Meet halfway in Medellín
For a group meeting in Medellín, the fairest points are usually San Antonio, Acevedo, San Javier or Industriales - Metro stations where Line A or Line B meets the MetroCable, the Ayacucho tram or Metroplús. Which one is fairest depends on where everyone starts: togather times each person door to door and finds the spots where nobody is stuck with a much longer trip.
- Metro
- MetroCable
- Tranvía de Ayacucho
- Metroplús
- Buses
- Cycling
- Walking
Where groups actually meet in Medellín
Interchanges that work as a fair midpoint for most groups. togather will not always land on one of these - it answers for your actual starting points - but they are the ones that come up again and again.
San Antonio
Metro Line A, Line B and Tranvía de Ayacucho
The only station where both Metro lines and the tram meet, in the centre, so almost the whole valley reaches it with one change at most.
Acevedo
Metro Line A and MetroCable lines K and P
The northern interchange where two cable cars climb into the hillside neighbourhoods, and the fair answer for a group with people coming down from them.
San Javier
Metro Line B and MetroCable Line J
The western end of Line B, linked to the cable car, and fairer than the centre for a group living in San Javier, Comuna 13 or the western slopes.
Industriales
Metro Line A and Metroplús
Where the Metro meets the Metroplús bus corridor south of the centre, and a good middle for a group split between El Poblado, Belén and Guayabal.
Parque Berrío
Metro Line A
In the busiest part of downtown, a short walk from Plaza Botero, and the natural pick when the plan itself is in the centre rather than a point to pass through.
Poblado
Metro Line A
The station for El Poblado, and the right call when most of the group lives in the south-east of the valley or in Envigado and the plan is a restaurant there.
How to pick a fair meeting point in Medellín
Medellín fills a narrow valley, the Aburrá, with neighbourhoods climbing steeply up both sides. A flat map hides that. Two friends who look close can be separated by a hillside that takes far longer to come down than the distance suggests, and a point in the middle of the map may sit at the bottom of a slope one of them has to climb back up.
The Metro runs along the valley floor, and the stations where it meets the other networks are what make a fair point possible. San Antonio joins Line A, Line B and the Ayacucho tram in the centre. Acevedo and San Javier connect the Metro to the MetroCable lines that serve the hillside comunas, and Industriales links it to the Metroplús buses.
Come down the hill to the nearest cable car, not into the centre
The centre is not always the answer. A group with people coming down from the north-east hillsides is better served by Acevedo than by a ride to downtown. A group across El Poblado, Envigado and Belén is better off at Industriales or Poblado. Sending either group to San Antonio adds a leg in each direction. A group split between the western slopes and the centre usually does better at San Javier, where the cable car meets Line B.
Plenty of trips here are by bus or car, and the hills make cycling slower in one direction than the other. togather times each person’s real route, uphill legs included, whether they ride the MetroCable, drive or cycle, and shows the stations where the group’s travel times balance out.
Meeting halfway in Medellín - questions
- Where is a fair place to meet halfway in Medellín?
- Usually a Metro interchange rather than the map's middle - San Antonio for a group spread across the valley, Acevedo for the north, Industriales or Poblado for the south. togather works out which from everyone's starting point.
- Are the MetroCable lines included?
- Yes. The cable cars are part of the transit network, so someone living up a hillside is timed on the cable car and the Metro together rather than placed as close as their position on the map suggests.
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