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Valle Gómez metro station

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Valle Gómez metro station[b] 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.

Coordinates19°27′31″N 99°07′09″W
OwnerGovernment of Mexico City
Quick facts General information, Location ...
Pictogram of Valle Gómez metro station. It features the silhouette of an agave plant. Valle Gómez
Mexico City Metro
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
SystemMexico City Metro
OwnerGovernment of Mexico City
OperatorSistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC)
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Connections
  • Route: 200
  • Routes: 5-A, 20-A
Construction
Structure type
Underground
Other information
StatusIn service
History
Opened1 July 1982; 44 years ago (1982-07-01)
Key dates
23 April 2020;
6 years ago
 (2020-04-23)
Temporarily closed
15 June 2020;
6 years ago
 (2020-06-15)
Reopened
Passengers
20251,414,821[1][a] Decrease 0.05%
Rank186/195[1][a]
Services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station
Misterios 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
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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

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

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

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

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]

More information Annual passenger ridership, Year ...
Annual passenger ridership[a]
Year Ridership Average daily Rank % change Ref.
20251,414,8213,876186/195−0.05%[1]
20241,415,4833,867178/195−2.47%[1]
20231,451,2793,976171/195+11.57%[1]
20221,300,7463,563169/195+42.48%[1]
2021912,9592,501180/195+5.65%[19]
2020864,1272,361190/195−46.39%[20]
20191,611,9074,416189/195−3.03%[17]
20181,662,2924,554189/195+2.58%[18]
20171,620,4784,439189/195−2.26%[21]
20161,657,8844,529188/195+1.33%[22]
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Notes

  1. The data here is limited to the most recent ten years to avoid excessive listings; earlier figures can be found in this page's history or on the Mexico City Metro website. To calculate the average daily ridership, the annual total is divided by 365 days (366 in leap years), with decimals omitted from the result. Each station per line is ranked individually, as the system counts transfer stations separately. The percentage change is calculated automatically using the data from the current year and the previous year.
  2. Estación del Metro Valle Gómez. Mexican Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbaʎe ˈɣomes] ⓘ.

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