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Valle Gómez (Mexican Spanish pronunciation (help·info)) 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 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.

Valle Gómez
STC rapid transit
Station sign, 2012
General information
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 de Transporte Colectivo (STC)
Line(s)	(Politécnico – Pantitlán)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Route: 200 Routes: 5-A, 20-A
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Other information
Status	In service
History
Opened	1 July 1982 (1982-07-01)
Key dates
23 April 2020 (2020-04-23)	Temporarily closed
15 June 2020 (2020-06-15)	Reopened
Passengers
2021	912,959[1]  5.65%
Rank	180/195[1]
Services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station Misterios toward Politécnico Line 5 Consulado toward Pantitlán
Route map Legend Politécnico Instituto del Petróleo Autobuses del Norte La Raza Misterios Valle Gómez Consulado Eduardo Molina Aragón Oceanía Terminal Aérea Hangares Pantitlán This diagram: view talk edit
Location
Valle Gómez Location within Mexico City
Area map

Location

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 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 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.[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, between 2011 and 2021, commuters averaged between 2,300 and 4,900 daily entrances. In 2019, before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public transport, the station's ridership totaled 1,611,907 passengers,[17] which was a decrease of 50,385 passengers compared to 2018.[18] In the same year, Valle Gómez 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.
2021	912,959	2,501	180/195	+5.65%	[1]
2020	864,127	2,361	190/195	−46.39%	[19]
2019	1,611,907	4,416	189/195	−3.03%	[17]
2018	1,662,292	4,554	189/195	+2.58%	[18]
2017	1,620,478	4,439	189/195	−2.26%	[20]
2016	1,657,884	4,529	188/195	+1.33%	[21]
2015	1,636,122	4,482	180/195	+1.76%	[22]
2014	1,607,802	4,404	181/195	−0.82%	[23]
2013	1,621,149	4,441	190/195	−3.58%	[24]
2012	1,681,310	4,593	174/195	−4.82%	[25]
2011	1,766,417	4,839	171/175	–	[26]

References

External links

• Media related to Valle Gómez (station) at Wikimedia Commons
• "Metro Valle Gómez". At the Official Guide to Mexico City.

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