Terminal Aérea metro station

Terminal Aérea (Spanish pronunciation ; Spanish for "Air Terminal"[2]) is a Mexico City Metro station next to the Mexico City International Airport in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City. It is an underground station with two side platforms, served by Line 5 (the Yellow line), between Oceanía and Hangares stations. The station serves colonias Peñón de los Baños and Moctezuma 2ª sección.

Terminal Aérea
STC rapid transit
Station sign, 2006
LocationPuerto Aéreo Boulevard
Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City
Mexico
Coordinates19°26′01″N 99°05′16″W
Operated bySistema Transporte Colectivo Metro
Line(s)Line 5
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsMexico City International Airport
Terminal 1
Trolleybus Line 4
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
History
Opened19 December 1981
Passengers
20196,712,062[1]
Rank96/195[1]
Services
Preceding station STC Following station
Oceanía
toward Politécnico
 Line 5 Hangares
toward Pantitlán
Location
Terminal Aérea
Location within Mexico City

Terminal Aérea station was opened on 19 December 1981, on the first day of then Consulado–Pantitlán service. The station's pictogram features an airliner and a control tower, and its name is on account of its proximity to the check-in areas of Mexico City International Airport Terminal 1. There are six murals painted by David Lach inside the station.

Location
View of Terminal Aérea bus stop seen from Boulevard Puerto Aéreo

Terminal Aérea is a metro station on Puerto Aéreo Boulevard, in Venustiano Carranza borough, in eastern Mexico City,[3] 200 meters (660 ft) away from Mexico City International Airport Terminal 1, Gate A.[4][5] On their Policy Review of Mexico, the OECD criticized the station for not having proper signage and for not being designed for first-time travelers as they "must negotiate over 110 steps" to reach it.[6] Terminal Aérea also serves colonias Peñón de los Baños and Moctezuma 2ª sección in the Venustiano Carranza borough.[7] Within the system, the station lies between Oceanía and Hangares stations.[7]

Terminal 1 Metrobús station (Line 4) services the area, as well as Line 4 (formerly Line G) of the trolleybus system.[7]

Exits
  • East: Boulevard Puerto Aéreo and Aeropuerto Civil street, colonia Peñón de los Baños.[7]
  • West: Boulevard Puerto Aéreo (between Norte 33 and Oriente 33 streets), colonia Moctezuma 2ª sección.[7]

History and construction
View of the station platforms in 2006

Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Grupo ICA;[8] Terminal Aérea was opened on 19 December 1981, on the first day of then Consulado–Pantitlán service.[9] Terminal Aérea was built underground,[10] with Santo Tomás marble floors, travertine marble walls, and rustic-textured stucco plafond. Inside, there are six murals[8] and the station logo represents an airliner in front of a control tower.[7]

Between the Oceanía–Terminal Aérea interstation, the track goes from surface to underground,[8] and when it was opened the track had a 4.9% slope.[11] For the Terminal Aérea–Hangares interstation tunnel, slurry walls were built using the Milan method[8] and it is 1,153 m (3,782 ft) long.[12]

Before Terminal Aérea was built, Mexico City International Airport was serviced by Aeropuerto station on Line 1 (the Pink line), located 15 blocks away.[13] After Terminal Aérea was built, people still got off Aeropuerto due to the confusing name and pictogram, an airliner silhouette.[14][15] It was until 1997 that the station was renamed "Boulevard Puerto Aéreo" and the logo replaced with a pictogram of a bridge with a dome below, in reference to local features.[16]

Incidents

On 4 May 2015, an accident took place in Oceanía station when a train coming from Terminal Aérea crashed another one parked at the end of the platforms.[17] After the crash, the station was temporarily closed for repairs.[18] Since 1981, subsidence increased the Oceanía–Terminal Aérea slope to at least 7% and contributed to the crash.[19] To reduce sinking, which is caused by rain, a 1 km (0.62 mi) tunnel is required, but due to lack of budget the project was canceled.[17]

From 1 to 16 March 2020, Terminal Aérea, Hangares, and Pantitlán stations were closed due to a leak of gasoline in a surface petrol station.[20]

Ridership

In 2019, Terminal Aérea had a ridership of 6,712,062 passengers (18,389 passengers per day),[1] which was an increase of 74,719 passengers compared to 2018.[21] In the same year, the station was the 96th busiest of the system's 195 stations, and the line's 4th busiest.[1]

Annual passenger ridership
Year Ridership Average daily Rank Ref.
20196,712,06218,38996/195[1]
20186,637,34318,184100/195[21]
20176,282,48417,212105/195[22]
20166,117,19016,713108/195[23]
20155,937,00816,265106/195[24]
20145,734,50915,710108/195[25]
20135,536,82415,169113/195[26]
20125,477,87214,966119/195[27]
20115,843,50316,009116/175[28]
20104,778,27413,091114/175[29]

Landmarks

Terminal Aérea station has six murals painted by Mexican artist David Lach in 1981, becoming the first person to do it inside the Mexico City Metro.[30] Four murals, titled Paisajes cálidos y fríos,[31] are located at the end of each platform (Cálidos in the southern walls and Fríos in the northern walls).[8] According to Lach, the red and green colors represent direction and temperature.[32] The other two murals are located in the lobby and are titled Tlaltilco (east lobby) and Cuitzeo (west lobby).[8][31] They represent a mixture of the pre-Columbian era with contemporary Mexico.[30]

A pedestrian bridge nicknamed "MacPuente" is located near the station. People use it as an improvised observation deck to see the landing and take-off of airplanes.[33][34]

Murals by David Lach
Cuitzeo, in honor of pre-Hispanic cultures
Tlatilco, in honor of pre-Hispanic cultures
One of the Paisajes Cálidos
One of the Paisajes Fríos
Inside Terminal Aérea, there are multiple murals

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