Eduardo Molina metro station

"Eduardo Molina Station" redirects here. For the BRT stations, see Eduardo Molina (Mexico City Metrobús) and Deportivo Eduardo Molina (Mexico City Metrobús).

Eduardo Molina metro station^[a] is a Mexico City Metro station within the limits of Gustavo A. Madero and Venustiano Carranza, in Mexico City. It is an at-grade station with one island platform, served by Line 5 (the Yellow Line), between Consulado and Aragón stations. Eduardo Molina station serves the colonias (neighborhoods) of 20 de Noviembre and Malinche. The station is named after Eduardo Molina Arévalo, an engineer who helped to solve the problem of water scarcity in the Valley of Mexico in the mid-20th century, and its pictogram represents two hands holding water, as featured on the mural El agua, origen de la vida (lit. transl. Water, Origin of Life), painted by Mexican muralist Diego Rivera in the Cárcamo de Dolores, in Chapultepec, Mexico City. Eduardo Molina metro station was opened on 19 December 1981, on the first day of the Consulado–Pantitlán service. In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 6,811 passengers, making it the 176th busiest station in the network and the ninth busiest of the line.

Eduardo Molina
STC rapid transit
Station sign, 2012
General information
Location	Río Consulado Avenue Gustavo A. Madero and Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City Mexico
Coordinates	19°27′05″N 99°06′20″W / 19.451378°N 99.105434°W / 19.451378; -99.105434
Owned by	Government of Mexico City
Operated by	Sistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC)
Line(s)	(Politécnico – Pantitlán)
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Río Consulado Route: 200 Route: 20-B
Construction
Structure type	At grade
Other information
Status	In service
History
Opened	19 December 1981 (1981-12-19)
Key dates
23 April 2020 (2020-04-23)	Temporarily closed
15 June 2020 (2020-06-15)	Reopened
Passengers
2023	1,873,834^[1]  16.5%
Rank	153/195^[1]
Services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station Consulado toward Politécnico Line 5 Aragón 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 Eduardo Molina Location within Mexico City Area map and exits

Location

Eduardo Molina is a metro station located on Río Consulado Avenue, in northeastern Mexico City.^[2] The station serves the colonias (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhoods") of 20 de Noviembre, in Venustiano Carranza,^[3] and Malinche, in Gustavo A. Madero.^[4] Within the system, the station lies between Consulado and Aragón stations.^[2]

The area is serviced by Line 5 of the Metrobús system at Río Consulado bus station, a few blocks away,^[2] as well as by Route 200 of the Red de Transporte de Pasajeros network,^[5] and by Route 20-B of the city's public bus system.^[6]

Exits

There are two exits:^[2]

• North: Río Consulado Avenue and Norte 86 Street, Malinche, Gustavo A. Madero.
• South: Río Consulado Avenue, 20 de Noviembre, Venustiano Carranza.

History and construction

Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Cometro, a subsidiary of Empresas ICA,^[7] and its first section was opened on 19 December 1981, operating from Pantitlán to Consulado stations.^[8] Eduardo Molina is an at-grade station;^[9] the Eduardo Molina–Aragón interstation is 860 meters (2,820 ft) long, while the Eduardo Molina–Consulado section measures 815 meters (2,674 ft).^[10] The station is named after Eduardo Molina Arévalo [es],^[2] a Mexican engineer who helped to solve the problem of water scarcity in the Valley of Mexico in the mid-20th century through the Lerma River system,^[11][12] and the station's pictogram features two hands holding water, a reference to a fragment of the mural El agua, origen de la vida (lit. transl. Water, Origin of Life),^[2] painted by Diego Rivera inside the main building of the Cárcamo de Dolores, a hydraulic sump structure in Chapultepec, Mexico City.^[13][14]

Incidents

After the 2015 Oceanía station train crash, Eduardo Molina metro station was temporarily closed for repairs.^[15] On 31 July 2018, three railroad cars uncoupled while a train was traveling at the Consulado–Eduardo Molina interstation, with no injuries reported. When the incident was reviewed, authorities found that the nuts that kept the cars together were damaged.^[16] From 23 April to 15 June 2020, the station was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.^[17][18]

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 6,800 and 8,000 daily entrances between 2013 and 2019; the station had a ridership of 2,486,165 passengers in 2019,^[19] which was a decrease of 75,730 passengers compared to 2018.^[20] Also in 2019, Eduardo Molina metro station was the 176th busiest station of the system's 195 stations and it was the line's ninth busiest.^[19]

Annual passenger ridership
Year	Ridership	Average daily	Rank	% change	Ref.
2023	2,183,048	5,980	153/195	+16.50%	^[1]
2022	1,873,834	5,133	155/195	+44.84%	^[1]
2021	1,293,750	3,544	161/195	+0.40%	^[21]
2020	1,288,544	3,520	177/195	−48.17%	^[22]
2019	2,486,165	6,811	176/195	−2.96%	^[19]
2018	2,561,895	7,018	175/195	+5.08%	^[20]
2017	2,437,928	6,979	173/195	−4.72%	^[23]
2016	2,558,663	7,010	174/195	−4.04%	^[24]
2015	2,666,483	7,305	160/195	−1.41%	^[25]
2014	2,704,567	7,409	159/195	−7.23%	^[26]

Gallery

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  Eduardo Molina station lies next to the Río Consolado Avenue
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  Eduardo Molina station's pictogram features a fragment of the mural El agua, origen de la vida (detail pictured) by Diego Rivera

Notes

1. Estación del Metro Eduardo Molina. Spanish pronunciation: [eˈðwaɾ.ðo mo'li.na] ^ⓘ.

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. "Eduardo Molina" (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro. from the original on 5 July 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
3. "Colonia 20 de Noviembre, Código Postal 15300, Venustiano Carranza, Distrito Federal" [20 de Noviembre, postal code 15300, Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City] (in Spanish). Heraldo. from the original on 15 July 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
4. "Colonia La Malinche, Código Postal 077899, Gustavo A. Madero, Distrito Federal" (in Spanish). Heraldo. from the original on 15 July 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
5. "Red de Rutas" [Routes network] (in Spanish). Red de Transporte de Pasajeros. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
6. "Red de corredores" [Route network] (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 October 2021.
7. "Línea 5, Ciudad de México" [Line 5, Mexico City] (in Spanish). iNGENET Infraestructura. 20 July 2009. from the original on 2 September 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
8. "Baia, Baia, Tacubaya... Las estaciones del metro MÁS y MENOS utilizadas en CDMX" [Well, well, well... The MOST and LEAST used stations in Mexico City] (in Spanish). Nacion 321. 4 September 2019. from the original on 15 April 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
9. "Eduardo Molina Metro Station (Mexico City, 1981)". Structurae.net. from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
10. "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.
11. Mejía, Ximena (30 May 2015). "Cárcamo de Lerma, un culto al agua en el DF" [Sump of Lerma, a water cult in the Federal District]. Excélsior (in Spanish). from the original on 22 July 2020. Retrieved 22 July 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. p. 10. (PDF) from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
13. "Cárcamo de Dolores, fusión de arte y urbanismo" [Sump of Dolores, fusion of art and urbanism] (in Spanish). Comisión Nacional del Agua. Government of Mexico. 8 November 2017. from the original on 22 July 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
14. "Mexico City with Kids: Museo del Carcamo de Dolores". Kiddiemundo. from the original on 22 July 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
15. Alarcón, Rodrigo (5 May 2015). "RTP brindará traslado gratuito de Pantitlán a Eduardo Molina" [Red de Transporte de Pasajeros will provide free service from Pantitlán to Eduardo Molina]. Excélsior. from the original on 30 October 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
16. Hernández, Eduardo (31 July 2018). "Vagones se desprenden de un convoy en la Línea 5 del Metro" [Train's railcards uncoupled at Metro Line 5]. El Universal (in Spanish). from the original on 14 December 2018.
17. "Cierre temporal de estaciones" [Temporal closure of stations] (PDF) (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
18. 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). from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
19. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2019" [Station traffic per line 2019] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2020. from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
20. "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.
21. "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.
22. "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.
23. "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.
24. "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.
25. "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.
26. "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 Eduardo Molina (station) at Wikimedia Commons
• "Metro Eduardo Molina". At the Official Guide to Mexico City.
• Monzón, Jorge Arturo. "Photos 1-12 of 12: Eduardo Molina". world.nycsubway.org.