Valle Gómez metro station

Valle Gómez metro station[lower-alpha 1] 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, served by Line 5 (the Yellow Line), between Misterios and Consulado stations. Valle Gómez station serves the colonias of 7 de Noviembre and Valle Gómez; the station receives its name from the latter. The station's pictogram features an agave plant. Valle Gómez metro station was opened on 1 July 1982, on the first day of the La Raza–Pantitlán service. In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 4,416 passengers, making it the 190th busiest station in the network and the least busy of the line.

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
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
20221,300,746[1] Increase 42.48%
Rank169/195[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
Area map

Location
Passengers are waiting for the arrival of a train on a platform.
Platforms, 2022

Valle Gómez is a metro station along Río Consulado Avenue, in northeastern Mexico City.[2] The station serves the colonias (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhoods") of 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] The area is serviced by Routes 5-A and 20-A of the city's public bus system[5] and by Route 200 of the Red de Transporte de Pasajeros network.[6]

Exits

There are two exits:[2]

  • North: Río Consulado Norte Avenue and Norte 50 Street, 7 de Noviembre, Gustavo A. Madero.
  • South: Río Consulado Sur Avenue and Real del Monte Avenue, Valle Gómez, Venustiano Carranza.

History and construction

Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Cometro, a subsidiary of Empresas ICA;[7] in the Valle Gómez–Misterios stretch, workers uncovered part of a road that connected Tenochtitlan with the Tepeyac hill.[8] The road was built with materials dating from the Mesoamerican Postclassic Period.[8]

Valle Gómez metro station is an underground station that was opened on 1 July 1982,[9] on the first day of the La Raza–Pantitlán service.[10] The interstation stretch between Valle Gómez and Consulado stations goes from underground to the at-grade level and it is 679 m (2,227 ft) long; the Misterios–Valle Gómez tunnel is 969 m (3,179 ft) long.[11]

The station's pictogram represents an agave plant,[12] 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

According to the system authorities, the Consulado–Valle Gómez section is a common zone of copper wire thefts, which potentially can create fires in 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] In the Misterios–Valle Gómez tunnel, a train window was ejected and caused a short circuit on 21 February 2021.[16]

Ridership

According to the data provided by the authorities since the 2000s, and before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public transport, commuters averaged per year between 4,400 and 4,600 daily entrances between 2013 and 2019; the station had a ridership of 1,611,907 passengers in 2019,[17] which was a decrease of 50,385 passengers compared to 2018.[18] Also in 2019, Valle Gómez metro station was the 189th busiest station in the system and it was the line's least used station.[17]

Annual passenger ridership
Year Ridership Average daily Rank  % change Ref.
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]
20151,636,1224,482180/195+1.76%[23]
20141,607,8024,404181/195−0.82%[24]
20131,621,1494,441190/195−3.58%[25]

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

References
  1. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2022" [Station traffic per line 2022] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2023. Archived from the original on 5 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  2. "Valle Gómez" (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro. Archived from the original on 5 July 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  3. "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.
  4. "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.
  5. "Red de corredores" [Route network] (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  6. "Red de Rutas" [Routes network] (in Spanish). Red de Transporte de Pasajeros. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  7. "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.
  8. 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.
  9. "Valle Gómez Metro Station (Mexico City, 1982)". Structurae.net. Archived from the original on 9 July 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  10. Transporte: Seis años de esfuerzo conjunto [Transport: Six years of joint effort] (in Spanish). Vol. I. Government of the Federal District Department. 1987. p. 17.
  11. 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.
  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 'blown out' of Metro Line 5 train]. Excélsior (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  17. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2019" [Station traffic per line 2019] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2020. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  18. "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.
  19. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2021" [Station traffic per line 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 per line 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 per line 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 per line 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 per line 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 per line 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 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.
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