Santiago - Chile (01/17/2010) Michelle Bachelet, Chile's Prime Minister, alongside the Chairman of Metro de Santiago, Clemente Perez, and the Metropolitan Mayor, Igor Garafulic, inaugurated on Tuesday the first section of the extension of Line 5, which includes five new stations (Gruta de Lourdes, Blanqueado, Lo Prado, San Pablo and Pudahuel) and that benefits about 450 thousand people. With the commissioning of this new installment (5,6 Km), the Santiago metro network reaches 95 kilometers. The station Pudahuel becomes now the new terminal to the west, through the end of 2010, when is scheduled to open the second planned section of the extension that will reach the Plaza de Maipú. The second tranche of the extension of Line 5 will include 7 stations: Barrancas, South Laguna, Parcels, Mount Tabor, Del Sol, Santiago Bueras and Plaza de Maipú.