Infrastructure
Argentina's transport infrastructure is relatively advanced. There are over 230,000 km (144,000 mi) of roads (not including private rural roads) of which 72,000 km (45,000 mi) are paved, and 2,643 kilometres (1,642 mi) are expressways, many of which are privatized tollways. Having doubled in length in recent years, multilane expressways now connect several major cities with more under construction. Expressways are, however, currently inadequate to deal with local traffic, as over 10.5 million motor vehicles were registered nationally as of 2010 (260 per 1000 population).
The railway network has a total length of 37,856 kilometres (23,523 mi). After decades of declining service and inadequate maintenance, most intercity passenger services shut down in 1992 when the state rail company was privatized, and thousands of kilometers of track are now in disuse; outside Greater Buenos Aires most rail lines still in operation are freight related, carrying around 23 million tons a year. The metropolitan rail lines in and around Buenos Aires remained in great demand owing in part to their easy access to the Buenos Aires subway, however; the metro rail network of 833 kilometres (518 mi) carries around 400 million passengers yearly. A similar number of automobiles commute from Greater Buenos Aires to the city proper, and four times that number commute by city bus.
Inaugurated in 1913, the Buenos Aires Metro was the first subway system built in Latin America and the Southern Hemisphere. No longer the most extensive in South America, its 60 kilometres (37 mi) of track carry nearly a million passengers daily.
Argentina has around 11,000 km (6,835 mi) of navigable waterways, and these carry more cargo than do the country's freight railways. This includes an extensive network of canals, though Argentina is blessed with ample natural waterways, as well; the most significant among these being the Río de la Plata, Paraná, Uruguay, Río Negro and Paraguay rivers.
Aerolíneas Argentinas is the country's main airline, providing both extensive domestic and international service. Austral Líneas Aéreas is Aerolíneas Argentinas' subsidiary, with a route system that covers almost all of the country. LADE is a military-run commercial airline that flies extensive domestic services. Domestic air travel totaled 6.4 million passengers in 2011; international departures, over 11 million.
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