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Valle Gómez metro station

Coordinates: 19°27′31″N 99°07′09″W / 19.458742°N 99.119296°W / 19.458742; -99.119296
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Pictogram of Valle Gómez metro station. It features the silhouette of an agave plant. Valle Gómez
Mexico City Metro
STC rapid transit
Picture of a sign indicating one of the entrances to Valle Gómez station
Station sign, 2012
General information
LocationRío Consulado Avenue
Gustavo A. Madero and Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City
Mexico
Coordinates19°27′31″N 99°07′09″W / 19.458742°N 99.119296°W / 19.458742; -99.119296
Owned byGovernment of Mexico City
Operated bySistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC)
Line(s)Mexico City Metro Line 5 (Politécnico – Pantitlán)
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Connections
  • Route: 200
  • Routes: 5-A, 20-A
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
Other information
StatusIn service
History
Opened1 July 1982 (1982-07-01)
Key dates
23 April 2020 (2020-04-23)Temporarily closed
15 June 2020 (2020-06-15)Reopened
Passengers
20231,451,279[1] Increase 11.57%
Rank171/195[1]
Services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station
Misterios
toward Politécnico
 Line 5 Consulado
toward Pantitlán
Location
Valle Gómez is located in Mexico City
Valle Gómez
Pictogram of Valle Gómez metro station. It features the silhouette of an agave plant. Valle Gómez
Location within Mexico City
Map
Area map

Valle Gómez metro station[a] is a Mexico City Metro station within the limits of Gustavo A. Madero and Venustiano Carranza, in Mexico City. It is an underground station with two side platforms, serving Line 5 (the Yellow Line), between Misterios and Consulado metro stations. Valle Gómez metro station was inaugurated on 1 July 1982, providing northwestward service toward La Raza metro station and eastward service toward Pantitlán metro station.

The station services the colonias (neighborhoods) of 7 de Noviembre and Valle Gómez, along Avenida Río Consulado. The station is named after the neighborhood, a former paddock. The pictogram for the station represents an agave plant. In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 4,416 passengers, ranking it the 189th busiest station in the network and the least busiest of the line.

Location

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Passengers are waiting for the arrival of a train on a platform.
The station platforms in 2022

Valle Gómez is an underground metro station along Avenida Río Consulado, in northeastern Mexico City.[2][3] It serves the colonias (neighborhoods) of 7 de Noviembre, in Gustavo A. Madero, and Valle Gómez, in Venustiano Carranza.[2] Valle Gómez metro station has two exits that lead to Avenida Río Consulado. The northern exit is at the corner of Calle Norte 50, in Colonia 7 de Noviembre and the southern one leads to Avenida Real del Monte, in Colonia Valle Gómez.[2]

Within the system, the station lies between Misterios and Consulado.[2] The area is serviced by Routes 5-A and 20-A of the city's public bus system[4] and by Route 200 of the Red de Transporte de Pasajeros network.[5]

History and construction

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An agave located in the middle of a garden. The plant has long, straight leaves.
Valle Gómez's pictogram is based on an agave plant (agave salmiana pictured)

Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Cometro, a subsidiary of Empresas ICA. It opened on 19 December 1981.[6][7] The next section, where Valle Gómez station is located, opened on 1 July 1982, the first day of service for the western expansion from Consulado to La Raza metro station.[8]

The tunnel between Misterios and Valle Gómez stations is 969 meters (3,179 ft) long.[9][10] During construction, workers uncovered part of a road that connected Tenochtitlan with the Tepeyac hill. The road was built with materials dating back to the Mesoamerican Postclassic Period.[11] The opposite side towards Consulado station emerges to the grade level and is 679 meters (2,228 ft).[9]

The station's pictogram represents an agave plant. It is named after the Valle Gómez family, who owned the former La Vaquita paddock in the area, where agave plants grew. The station also has an Internet café.[12][2]

Incidents

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According to the system authorities, the section between Valle Gómez and Consulado stations is a common zone of copper wire thefts, which could potentially cause fires on the tracks[13] From 23 April to 15 June 2020, the station was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.[14][15] A train window was ejected in the tunnel between Misterios, causing a short circuit on station 21 February 2021.[16]

Ridership

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According to the data provided by the authorities, before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public transport, commuters averaged per year between 4,400 and 4,600 daily entrances between 2014 and 2019; the station had a ridership of 1,611,907 passengers in 2019,[17] marking a decrease of 50,385 passengers compared to 2018.[18] In 2019 specifically, Valle Gómez metro station ranked as the 189th busiest station out of the system's 195 stations and was the least busiest on the line out of thirteen stations.[17]

Annual passenger ridership
Year Ridership Average daily Rank % change Ref.
2023 1,451,279 3,976 171/195 +11.57% [1]
2022 1,300,746 3,563 169/195 +42.48% [1]
2021 912,959 2,501 180/195 +5.65% [19]
2020 864,127 2,361 190/195 −46.39% [20]
2019 1,611,907 4,416 189/195 −3.03% [17]
2018 1,662,292 4,554 189/195 +2.58% [18]
2017 1,620,478 4,439 189/195 −2.26% [21]
2016 1,657,884 4,529 188/195 +1.33% [22]
2015 1,636,122 4,482 180/195 +1.76% [23]
2014 1,607,802 4,404 181/195 −0.82% [24]
Historical annual passenger ridership
2009 1,375,787 3,769 170/175 — [25]

Notes

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  1. ^ Estación del Metro Valle Gómez. Mexican Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbaʎe ˈɣomes] ⓘ.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Afluencia de estación por línea (2022—2023)" [Station traffic by line (2022—2023)] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2024. Archived from the original on 27 January 2024. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Valle Gómez" (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro. Archived from the original on 5 July 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Metro CDMX: ¿Cuáles son las líneas que circulan por arriba como la Línea 12, es peligroso usarlas?" [Mexico City Metro: Which Lines Run Above Ground like Line 12, and Is It Dangerous to Use Them?]. El Heraldo de México (in Spanish). 4 May 2021. Archived from the original on 13 July 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Red de corredores" [Route network]. Organismo Regulador de Transporte (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 October 2021. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  5. ^ "Red de Rutas" [Routes network] (in Spanish). Red de Transporte de Pasajeros. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  6. ^ "Línea 5, Ciudad de México" [Line 5, Mexico City] (in Spanish). iNGENET Infraestructura. 20 July 2009. Archived from the original on 2 September 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  7. ^ "CDMX ¿Cuáles son las estaciones de la Línea 5 del Metro?" [Mexico City: What Are the Stations of Line 5 of the Metro?]. Noticieros Televisa (in Spanish). 3 September 2021. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
  8. ^ Transporte: Seis años de esfuerzo conjunto [Transportation: Six Years of Joint Effort] (in Spanish). Vol. I. Government of the Federal District Department. 1987. p. 17.
  9. ^ a b "Longitud de estación a estación por línea" [Length from Station to Station by Line] (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro. Archived from the original on 4 May 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  10. ^ Gamez Rojas, Marlen (2010). "Análisis de riesgos de incendio en el Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro" [Analysis of fire risks in the Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro] (PDF) (in Spanish). Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica. Instituto Politécnico Nacional. p. 95. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 November 2020.
  11. ^ Sánchez Vázquez, Ma. de Jesús; Mena Cruz, Alberto; Carballal Staedtler, Margarita (2010). "Investigación Arqueológica en la Construcción del Metro" [Archaeological Research in the Construction of the Metro] (PDF) (in Spanish). Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 July 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  12. ^ López Munguía, Agustín (2006). "El metro, los alimentos y la biotecnología" [Metro: Food and Biotechnology] (PDF) (in Spanish). Dirección General de Divulgación de la Ciencia. National Autonomous University of Mexico. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  13. ^ Wachauf, Daniela (13 July 2021). "Ya les gustó robar cable en la Línea 5 del Metro" [Thefts Have Liked Stealing Cable on Metro Line 5]. 24 Horas (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 13 July 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  14. ^ "Cierre temporal de estaciones" [Temporal closure of stations] (PDF) (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  15. ^ Hernández, Eduardo (13 June 2020). "Coronavirus. Este es el plan para reabrir estaciones del Metro, Metrobús y Tren ligero" [Coronavirus. This Is the Plan to Reopen Metro, Metrobús and Light Rail Stations]. El Universal (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  16. ^ López, Jonás (21 February 2021). "Ventana 'sale disparada' de tren de Línea 5 del Metro" [Window 'shoots out' from a train on Line 5 of the Metro]. Excélsior (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  17. ^ a b c "Afluencia de estación por línea 2019" [Station traffic by line in 2019] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2020. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  18. ^ a b "Afluencia de estación por línea 2018" [Station traffic by line in 2018] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  19. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2021" [Station traffic by line in 2021] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2022. Archived from the original on 7 March 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  20. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2020" [Station traffic by line in 2020] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2021. Archived from the original on 21 June 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  21. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2017" [Station traffic by line in 2017] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  22. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2016" [Station traffic by line in 2016] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2017. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  23. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2015" [Station traffic by line in 2015] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2016. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  24. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2014" [Station traffic by line in 2014] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2015. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  25. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2009" [Station traffic by line in 2009] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2010. Archived from the original on 7 September 2010. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
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