Oceanía (Spanish pronunciation(help·info); Spanish lit.transl."Oceania") is a transfer station of the Mexico City Metro in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City. It is a combined elevated and at-grade station, along Lines5 (the Yellow Line) and B (the Green-and-Gray Line). Oceanía is located between Aragón and Terminal Aérea stations on Line5, and between Deportivo Oceanía and Romero Rubio stations on LineB. It serves the colonias of Pensador Mexicano and Aquiles Serdán. The station is named after Oceanía Avenue and its pictogram depicts a kangaroo, a representative animal from Oceania.
Oceanía station opened on 19December 1981 with service northward toward Consulado and southeastward toward Pantitlán on Line5. West service on LineB toward Buenavista and northeast toward Villa de Aragón started on 15December 1999. The station facilities are partially accessible for people with disabilities as there are tactile pavings and braille signage plates. Since it was opened, Oceanía station has had some incidents, including two fake bomb threats and a train crash, where one person indirectly died and twelve others resulted injured. In 2019, the station had an overall average daily ridership of 18,953 passengers.
Location
Line5 platforms in 2008, as seen from Río Consulado Avenue
Oceanía is a metro transfer station in the Venustiano Carranza borough, in northeastern Mexico City. The station lies on Río Consulado Avenue and Oceanía Avenue, and serves colonias (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhoods") of Pensador Mexicano and Aquiles Serdán. Within the system, it lies between Aragón and Terminal Aérea stations on Line5; on LineB, between Deportivo Oceanía and Romero Rubio stations.[2] The area is serviced by Line4 (formerly LineG) of the trolleybus system,[2] by Routes43 and 200 of the Red de Transporte de Pasajeros network,[3] and by Routes10-D and 20-B of the city's public bus system.[4]
North: Norte 174 Street and Río Blanco Street, Pensador Mexicano (Line5).
Southeast: Río Consulado Avenue, Pensador Mexicano (Line5).
North: Río Consulado Avenue and Norte 170 Street, Pensador Mexicano (LineB).
South: Oceanía Avenue and Dinares Street, Aquiles Serdán (LineB).
History and construction
The system's interchange tracks for Lines5 and B
Line5 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Cometro, a subsidiary of Empresas ICA;[5] Oceanía Line5 opened on 19December 1981, on the first day of the service between Consulado and Pantitlán stations.[6] The station was built at-grade level;[7] the Oceanía–Terminal Aérea interstation is 1,174 meters (3,852ft) long[8] and goes from the street level to the below-the-ground one,[5] and the track had a 4.9%slope when it was opened.[9] The Oceanía–Aragón interstation is 1,229m (4,032ft) long[8] and presents subsidence in the tracks.[10]
LineB of the Mexico City Metro was built by Empresas ICA;[11] Oceanía LineB opened on 15December 1999, on the first day of the then Buenavista–Villa de Aragón service.[12][13] The station was built above the ground.[14] The Oceanía–Deportivo Oceanía interstation goes from overground to the street level,[11] and it is 863m (2,831ft) long, while the Oceanía–Romero Rubio elevated section measures 890m (2,920ft).[8]
The passenger transfer tunnel that connects Line5 with LineB has a short length and, according to Roberto Remes, director of Ciudad Humana MX—a sustainable mobility non-governmental organization—, it is too narrow and potentially dangerous for riders during rush hours.[15] The station's pictogram depicts a kangaroo, a representative animal from Oceania and its name references the avenue in which it lies.[2] The facilities are partially accessible for people with disabilities as there are tactile pavings and braille signage plates.[2]
In 2008, Metro authorities had maintenance work done on Line 5station's roof.[16]
Incidents
2015 train crash
On 4 May 2015, at around 18:00 hours local time (00:00 UTC)[17] during heavy rain with hail,[18] two trains crashed while both were going toward Politécnico station.[19] The first train, No.4, was parked at the end of Oceanía station's platform after the driver reported that a plywood board was obstructing the tracks.[20] The second train, No.5, left Terminal Aérea station with the autopilot turned on despite the driver being asked to turn it off and to operate the train manually,[21] as the protocol requests it when it rains because trains have to drive with reduced speed.[22] Train No.5 crashed into Train No. 4 at 31.8km/h (19.8mph)[21] – double the average on arrival at the platforms –[20] and left twelve people injured.[23]
According to the driver, the train slid due to the rain and hail, as he noticed it, he attempted to brake and later tried to deactivate the autopilot system. As both actions failed, he contacted the Central Control Center to request them to cut the energy. The Center did not reply and, as he realized the train would impact the parked one, he decided to jump out of the cab before the crash.[24] According to the train event recorder, the train had reached 54.66km/h (33.96mph) at the Oceanía–Terminal Aérea slope (whose subsidence increased to at least7% since its opening)[25] and the driver did brake, reducing the speed to 49.7km/h (30.9mph), but was ineffective as the tracks were wet and the slope increased the speed to 53.6km/h (33.3mph).[20][26] The Metro system director, Joel Ortega, concluded that the accident was mainly a consequence of a "double human error"; the first one caused by the driver, who did not deactivate the autopilot when he was requested to do so, and the second by the Central Control Center regulator, who did not request Train No.5 to stop at any point,[27] even when the Train No.4's driver had warned he would stop the train due to the obstruction.[20]
Train No.5 was a 40-year-old model that had been restored recently.[21] It was removed from circulation in 2011 after it presented multiple braking problems. By 2014, it returned and operated for four hours on Line7 before being returned to the workshops. As Line5 is one of the least used lines in the system, the train was placed there instead.[24]
After the crash, the station was temporarily closed for repairs;[28] a worker was killed when he fell to the tracks after a railcar in which he was standing uncoupled.[22][29] To reduce the slope subsidence caused by rainfall, a 1km (0.62mi) tunnel was planned, but due to a lack of budget that project was canceled.[30] Instead, an 800m (0.50mi) roof that cost 65million pesos was built to prevent the tracks from getting wet and to avoid trains from sliding.[31]
Other
Two unrelated fake bomb threat incidents have occurred at Oceanía station. The first was in 1994 and was attributed to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation;[32] the second was unattributed and happened on 7May 2015.[33] After the collapse of the elevated railway near Olivos station on Line12 in May2021, users reported the structural damage to other elevated stations, including Oceanía station.[34] Mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, said that the reports would be examined accordingly.[35]
Ridership
According to the data provided by the authorities, between 2011 and 2021, commuters averaged between 5,400 and 9,600 daily entrances on Line5 and between 5,700 and 12,600 daily entrances on LineB. In 2019, before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public transport, the station's ridership totaled 6,918,126 passengers. For Line5, the ridership was 3,129,656 passengers (8,574 per day), which was an increase of 54,327 passengers compared to 2018. For LineB, the station had a ridership of 3,788,470 passengers (10,379 per day), which was an increase of 176,461 passengers compared to 2018.[36][37]
In 2019, the Line5 station was the 161st busiest of the system's 195stations, and the line's 6thbusiest. The LineB station was the 153rdbusiest in the system and the line's 15thbusiest.[36]
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