Doctores metro station

Doctores metro station^[a] is a station of the Mexico City Metro in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City. It is an underground station with two side platforms, served by Line 8 (the Green Line), between Salto del Agua and Obrera stations. It serves the colonias (neighborhoods) of Doctores and Obrera, and its name is on account of its proximity to the first one, whose streets are primarily named after physicians; the pictogram depicts a couple of them. Doctores metro station opened on 20 July 1994 with service northward toward Garibaldi and southeastward toward Constitución de 1917 stations. In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 12,334 passengers, making it the 138th busiest station in the network and the twelfth busiest of the line.

Doctores
STC rapid transit
Platforms, 2008
General information
Location	Eje Central Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City Mexico
Coordinates	19°25′18″N 99°08′36″W / 19.421612°N 99.143372°W / 19.421612; -99.143372
Owned by	Government of Mexico City
Operated by	Sistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC)
Line(s)	(Garibaldi / Lagunilla – Constitución de 1917)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Trolleybus Line 1: Doctores
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Other information
Status	In service
History
Opened	20 July 1994
Passengers
2023	3,513,423^[1]  8.76%
Rank	123/195^[1]
Services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station Salto del Agua toward Garibaldi / Lagunilla Line 8 Obrera toward Constitución de 1917
Route map Legend Garibaldi / Lagunilla Bellas Artes San Juan de Letrán Salto del Agua Doctores Obrera Chabacano La Viga Santa Anita Coyuya Iztacalco Apatlaco Aculco Escuadrón 201 Atlalilco Iztapalapa Cerro de la Estrella UAM-I Constitución de 1917 This diagram: view talk edit
Location Doctores Location within Mexico City Area map and exits

Location

 

Eje Central Avenue and Dr. Pascua Street in 2011

Doctores is a metro station located on Eje Central, in central Mexico City.^[2] The station serves the colonias (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhoods") of Doctores and Obrera. Within the system, the station lies between Salto del Agua and Obrera metro stations.^[2] The area is serviced by Line 1 (formerly Line A) of the trolleybus system.^[2]

Exits

There are four exits:^[2]

• Northeast: Eje Central (Lázaro Cárdenas Avenue) and Chimalpopoca Street, Doctores.
• Northwest: Eje Central and Dr. Pascua Street, Doctores.
• Southeast: Eje Central and Lucas Alaman Street, Obrera.
• Southwest: Eje Central and Dr. Liceaga Street, Obrera.

History and construction

Line 8 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Empresas ICA.^[3] Its first and only section opened on 20 July 1994, operating from Garibaldi to Constitución de 1917 metro stations.^[4] Doctores is an underground station;^[5] the Doctores–Salto del Agua tunnel is 564 meters (1,850 ft) long, while the Doctores–Obrera section measures 761 meters (2,497 ft).^[6] Workers uncovered "floors, walls, rammed earth, offerings, canals, chinampas and piles" while they were building the tunnel between José María Izazaga and Chimalpopoca Streets, between Doctores and Salto del Agua stations.^[7]

The station's pictogram features the silhouette of two physicians and it is named after the Doctores neighborhood, whose streets are named after academic physicians active during La Reforma,^[2] an era when the Liberal Party dominated the political life of the country after the ouster of the Conservative Party through the Plan of Ayutla in 1855.^[8]

Incidents

Due to heavy rains in the area, and the subsequent water accumulation in the tunnel, all the stations from Doctores to Iztacalco were closed on 3 July 2021.^[9]

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 11,600 and 12,400 daily entrances between 2013 and 2019; the station had a ridership of 4,502,133 passengers in 2019,^[10] which was an increase of 108,763 passengers compared to 2018.^[11] Also in 2019, Doctores metro station was the 138th busiest station of the system's 195 stations and it was the line's 12th busiest.^[10]

Annual passenger ridership
Year	Ridership	Average daily	Rank	% change	Ref.
2023	3,513,423	9,625	123/195	−8.76%	^[1]
2022	3,850,947	10,550	114/195	+28.84%	^[1]
2021	2,988,875	8,188	109/195	+3.45%	^[12]
2020	2,889,069	7,893	122/195	−35.83%	^[13]
2019	4,502,133	12,334	138/195	+2.48%	^[10]
2018	4,393,370	12,036	136/195	+2.88%	^[11]
2017	4,270,296	11,699	137/195	−5.51%	^[14]
2016	4,519,391	12,348	132/195	+1.44%	^[15]
2015	4,455,344	12,206	126/195	+2.89%	^[16]
2014	4,330,179	11,863	129/195	+0.80%	^[17]

Gallery

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  Mosaic design on one of the station walls. It features the silhouettes of flasks and mortars and pestles.

Notes

1. Estación del Metro Doctores. Spanish pronunciation: [doɣ'tores] ^ⓘ. The name of the station literally means "Physicians" or "Doctors" in Spanish.

References

1. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2023" [Station traffic per line 2023] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2024. from the original on 27 January 2024. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
2. "Doctores" (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro. from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
3. "Línea 8, Ciudad de México" [Line 8, Mexico City] (in Spanish). iNGENET Infraestructura. 20 July 2009. from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
4. "Ingeniería y Metro" [Engineering and Metro] (PDF). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro (in Spanish). Colegio de Ingenieros Civiles de México. p. 6. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
5. "Doctores Metro Station (Mexico City, 1994)". Structurae.net. from the original on 13 September 2021. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
6. "Longitud de estación a estación por línea" [Station-to-station length per line] (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro. from the original on 4 May 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
7. 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. (PDF) from the original on 9 July 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
8. Villegas Revueltas, Silvestre (2010). "The Significance of the Reform Period (1855-1862)" (PDF). Voices of Mexico. Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte. pp. 36–40. (PDF) from the original on 19 March 2020.
9. "Metro suspende servicio en estaciones Doctores a Iztacalco de la Línea 8 por acumulación de agua" [Metro suspends service from Doctores to Iztacalco on Line 8 due to water accumulation]. El Universal (in Spanish). 3 July 2021. from the original on 3 July 2021. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
10. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2019" [Station traffic per line 2019] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2020. from the original on 8 April 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
11. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2018" [Station traffic per line 2018] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
12. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2021" [Station traffic per line 2021] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2022. from the original on 7 March 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
13. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2020" [Station traffic per line 2020] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2021. from the original on 21 June 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
14. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2017" [Station traffic per line 2017] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. 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. 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. 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. from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.

External links

•   Media related to Doctores (station) at Wikimedia Commons