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.

Valle Gómez
STC rapid transit
Station sign, 2012
LocationRío Consulado Avenue
Gustavo A. Madero and Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City
Mexico
Coordinates19°27′31″N 99°07′09″W
Operated bySistema Transporte Colectivo Metro
Line(s)Line 5
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
History
Opened1 July 1982
Passengers
20191,611,907[1]
Rank189/195[1]
Services
Preceding station STC Following station
Misterios
toward Politécnico
 Line 5 Consulado
toward Pantitlán
Location
Valle Gómez
Location within Mexico City

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]

Exits
  • North: Río Consulado Norte Avenue and Norte 50 street, colonia 7 de Noviembre.[2]
  • South: Río Consulado Sur Avenue and Real del Monte Avenue, colonia Valle Gómez.[2]

History and construction
Valle Gómez's pictogram is based on an agave plant (agave salmiana pictured)

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]

Annual passenger ridership
Year Ridership Average daily Rank Ref.
20191,611,9074,416189/195[1]
20181,662,2924,554189/195[13]
20171,620,4784,439189/195[14]
20161,657,8844,529188/195[15]
20151,636,1224,482180/195[16]
20141,607,8024,404181/195[17]
20131,621,1494,441190/195[18]
20121,681,3104,593174/195[19]
20111,766,4174,839171/175[20]
20101,334,3233,655169/175[21]

References
  1. "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.
  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. "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.
  6. 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.
  7. "Valle Gómez Metro Station (Mexico City, 1982)". Structurae.net. Archived from the original on 9 July 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  8. Transporte: Seis años de esfuerzo conjunto [Transport: Six years of joint effort] (in Spanish). I. Government of the Federal District Department. 1987. p. 17.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. "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.
  12. 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.
  13. "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.
  14. "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.
  15. "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.
  16. "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.
  17. "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.
  18. "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.
  19. "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.
  20. "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.
  21. "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.

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