Valle Gómez metro station
Valle Gómez (Spanish pronunciation ) is a Mexico City Metro station in the limits of Gustavo A. Madero and Venustiano Carranza, in Mexico City. It is an underground station with two side platforms, served by Line 5 (the Yellow line), between Misterios and Consulado stations. Valle Gómez station serves the colonias 7 de Noviembre and Valle Gómez; the station receives its name from the latter. The station's pictogram features an agave plant. Valle Gómez was opened on 1 July 1982, on the first day of the La Raza–Pantitlán service.
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Location | Río Consulado Avenue Gustavo A. Madero and Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City Mexico | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 19°27′31″N 99°07′09″W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operated by | Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Line 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Structure type | Underground | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1 July 1982 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2019 | 1,611,907[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rank | 189/195[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Location
Valle Gómez is a metro station on Río Consulado Avenue, in northeastern Mexico City.[2] The station serves the colonias 7 de Noviembre, in Gustavo A. Madero,[3] and Valle Gómez, in Venustiano Carranza.[4] Within the system, the station lies between Misterios and Consulado stations.[2]
History and construction
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Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Grupo ICA;[5] in the Valle Gómez–Misterios stretch, workers uncovered part of a road that connected Tenochtitlan with the Tepeyac hill.[6] The road was built with materials dating from the Mesoamerican Postclassic Period.[6]
Valle Gómez is an underground station that was opened on 1 July 1982,[7] on the first day of the La Raza–Pantitlán service.[8] The interstation stretch between Valle Gómez and Consulado goes from underground to the surface and it is 679 m (2,227 ft) long; the Misterios–Valle Gómez tunnel is 969 m (3,179 ft) long.[9]
The station's pictogram represents an agave plant,[10] and the station is named after the Valle Gómez family, owners of the former La Vaquita paddock, where agave plants would grow.[2] There is an Internet café inside the station.[2]
Incidents
From 23 April to 15 June 2020, the station was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.[11][12]
Ridership
In 2019, Valle Gómez station had an overall ridership of 1,611,907 passengers,[1] which was a decrease of 50,385 passengers compared to 2018.[13] In the same year, Valle Gómez was the 189th busiest station of the system's 195 stations, and it was the line's least busy station.[1]
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Year | Ridership | Average daily | Rank | Ref. | |
2019 | 1,611,907 | 4,416 | 189/195 | [1] | |
2018 | 1,662,292 | 4,554 | 189/195 | [13] | |
2017 | 1,620,478 | 4,439 | 189/195 | [14] | |
2016 | 1,657,884 | 4,529 | 188/195 | [15] | |
2015 | 1,636,122 | 4,482 | 180/195 | [16] | |
2014 | 1,607,802 | 4,404 | 181/195 | [17] | |
2013 | 1,621,149 | 4,441 | 190/195 | [18] | |
2012 | 1,681,310 | 4,593 | 174/195 | [19] | |
2011 | 1,766,417 | 4,839 | 171/175 | [20] | |
2010 | 1,334,323 | 3,655 | 169/175 | [21] |
References
- "Afluencia de estación por línea 2019" [Station traffic per line 2019] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2020. Archived from the original on 8 April 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- "Valle Gómez" (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro. Archived from the original on 5 July 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
- "Colonia 7 de Noviembre, Código Postal 07840, Gustavo A. Madero, Distrito Federal" [7 de Noviembre, postal code 07840, Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico City] (in Spanish). Heraldo. Archived from the original on 2 May 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
- "Colonia Valle Gómez, Código Postal 15210, Venustiano Carranza, Distrito Federal" [Valle Gómez, postal code 15210, Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City] (in Spanish). Heraldo. Archived from the original on 13 September 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
- "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.
- 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.
- "Valle Gómez Metro Station (Mexico City, 1982)". Structurae.net. Archived from the original on 9 July 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
- Transporte: Seis años de esfuerzo conjunto [Transport: Six years of joint effort] (in Spanish). I. Government of the Federal District Department. 1987. p. 17.
- 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. 28. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 November 2020.
- 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.
- "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.
- 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.
- "Afluencia de estación por línea 2018" [Station traffic per line 2018] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
- "Afluencia de estación por línea 2017" [Station traffic per line 2017] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- "Afluencia de estación por línea 2016" [Station traffic per line 2016] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2017. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- "Afluencia de estación por línea 2015" [Station traffic per line 2015] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2016. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- "Afluencia de estación por línea 2014" [Station traffic per line 2014] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2015. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- "Afluencia de estación por línea 2013" [Station traffic per line 2013] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2014. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- "Afluencia de estación por línea 2012" [Station traffic per line 2012] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2013. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- "Afluencia de estación por línea 2011" [Station traffic per line 2011] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2012. Archived from the original on 6 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- "Afluencia de estación por línea 2010" [Station traffic per line 2010] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2011. Archived from the original on 6 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.