Zaragoza metro station (Mexico City)

Zaragoza metro station^[a] is a station of the Mexico City Metro in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City. It is an underground station with two side platforms served by Line 1 (the Pink Line) between Gómez Farías and Pantitlán stations. It serves the colonias (neighborhoods) of 4 Árboles and Puebla. It lies below the Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza from which it receives its name, which in turn is named after Ignacio Zaragoza, the Secretary of War and Navy during the Battle of Puebla (internationally known as Cinco de Mayo). The station's pictogram features a silhouette of the nearby equestrian statue that honors him.

Zaragoza
STC rapid transit
Station sign, 2012
General information
Location	Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City Mexico
Coordinates	19°24′44″N 99°04′57″W / 19.412344°N 99.08241°W / 19.412344; -99.08241
Owned by	Government of Mexico City
Operated by	Sistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC)
Line(s)	(Observatorio – Pantitlán)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Zaragoza Routes: 162B, 163, 163A, 163B, 164, 166, 167
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Status	In service
History
Opened	4 September 1969
Key dates
11 July 2022 (2022-07-11)	Temporarily closed
29 October 2023 (2023-10-29)	Reopened
Passengers
2022	8,708,578^[1]  30.89%
Rank	64/195^[1]
Services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station Gómez Farías toward Observatorio Line 1 Pantitlán Terminus
Route map Legend Observatorio yard Observatorio Tacubaya Juanacatlán Chapultepec Sevilla Insurgentes Cuauhtémoc Balderas Salto del Agua Isabel la Católica Pino Suárez Merced Candelaria San Lázaro Moctezuma Balbuena Boulevard Puerto Aéreo Gómez Farías Zaragoza Zaragoza workshops Pantitlán This diagram: view talk edit
Location
Zaragoza Location within Mexico City
Area map and exits

Zaragoza station opened on 4 September 1969 with service westward toward Chapultepec station; service eastward toward Pantitlán started on 22 August 1984. The facilities are accessible to people with disabilities as there are elevators, tactile pavings, access ramps, and braille signage plates; inside there is a cultural display, an Internet café, and a health module. In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 46,475 passengers, making it the 18th busiest station in the network and the 6th busiest of the line. From July 2022 to October 2023, the station was closed due to modernization works on the tunnel and the line's technical equipment.

Location

 

The station's entrance building is adjacent to Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza and the respective CETRAM.

Zaragoza is a metro station located along Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza, in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City.^[2] The station serves the colonias (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhoods") of 4 Árboles and Puebla. Within the system, the station lies between Gómez Farías and Pantitlán stations.^[2] The area is serviced by a Centro de transferencia modal (CETRAM), a type of transport hub^[3] and by Routes 162B, 163, 163A, 163B, 164, 166, and 167 of the Red de Transporte de Pasajeros network.^[4]

Exits

There are two exits:^[2]

• North: Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza and the entrance of the Regional Bus Station (CETRAM), 4 Árboles.
• South: Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza and 65 Street, Puebla.

History and construction

Line 1 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Ingeniería de Sistemas de Transportes Metropolitano, Electrometro, and Cometro, the last one a subsidiary of Empresas ICA.^[5] Its first section opened on 4 September 1969, operating from Zaragoza towards Chapultepec station.^[6] Zaragoza is an underground station;^[7] the Zaragoza–Gómez Farías tunnel is 762 meters (2,500 ft) long, while the Zaragoza–Pantitlán section measures 1,320 meters (4,330 ft).^[8] When it was opened, Zaragoza station served as the terminal of Line 1, thus the workshops are found after the station.^[9][10] On 22 August 1984, Pantitlán station was opened to connect Lines 1 and 5.^[11] The location of the workshop indirectly benefited the operations on the line as it allows the trains to depart to either station every 90 seconds.^[5]

The station was named after Ignacio Zaragoza, who was the Secretary of War and Navy during the Battle of Puebla, internationally celebrated as Cinco de Mayo.^[2] The station's pictogram features a silhouette of the equestrian statue of Zaragoza located in the zone.^[7] It has a disabled-accessible service as there are elevators, access ramps, tactile pavings and braille signage plates, a cultural display, an Internet café, and a health module.^[2] The station was closed on 11 July 2022 for modernization work on the tunnel and technical equipment of the line.^[12][13] Authorities reopened it fifteen months later, on 29 October 2023.^[14]

Landmarks

The Instituto de Capacitacion y Desarrollo Zaragoza is near the station. The system's personnel is capacitated there with full-sized replicas and props of the facilities and their equipment. Otherwise known as Expometro, it can be visited by the general public with guided tours.^[15]

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 46,400 and 61,300 daily entrances between 2013 and 2019; the station had a ridership of 15,572,745 passengers in 2019,^[16] which was a decrease of 1,390,692 passengers compared to 2018.^[17] Also in 2019, Zaragoza metro station was the 18th busiest station of the system's 195 stations, and it was the line's 6th busiest.^[16]

Annual passenger ridership
Year	Ridership	Average daily	Rank	% change	Ref.
2022	6,018,927	16,490	64/195	−30.89%	^[1]
2021	8,708,578	23,859	19/195	−12.98%	^[18]
2020	10,007,100	27,341	17/195	−41.01%	^[19]
2019	16,963,437	46,475	18/195	−6.63%	^[16]
2018	18,168,605	49,777	16/195	−2.61%	^[17]
2017	18,655,391	51,110	15/195	−2.29%	^[20]
2016	19,093,141	52,167	16/195	−7.18%	^[21]
2015	20,570,498	56,357	15/195	+4.65%	^[22]
2014	19,655,974	53,851	15/195	−12.08%	^[23]
2013	22,357,078	61,252	12/195	+13.86%	^[24]

Gallery

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  Line 1 exit to the Zaragoza workshops.

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  The equestrian statue of Zaragoza near the station served as the inspiration for the station's pictogram.

Notes

1. Estación del Metro Zaragoza. Mexican Spanish pronunciation: [saɾaˈɣosa] ^ⓘ.

References

1. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2022" [Station traffic per line 2022] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2023. from the original on 5 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
2. "Zaragoza" (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro. from the original on 27 February 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
3. Zamarrón, Israel (19 January 2021). "Dueños de los Cetram: Lidera Viva Aerobús y también Taxqueña y Zaragoza" [CETRAM owners: Viva Aerobús leads, as well as Taxqueña and Zaragoza]. El Sol de México (in Spanish). from the original on 3 March 2021.
4. "Red de Rutas" [Routes network] (in Spanish). Red de Transporte de Pasajeros. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
5. "Línea 1, Ciudad de México" [Line 1, Mexico City] (in Spanish). iNGENET Infraestructura. 20 July 2009. from the original on 19 July 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
6. "Los primeros usuarios del Metro" [The first Metro passengers]. El Universal (in Spanish). 5 September 2019. from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
7. Colin Moya, Susana (13 April 2019). "El pasado de la calzada Zaragoza" [The past of Calzada Zaragoza]. El Universal (in Spanish). from the original on 8 December 2020.
8. "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.
9. "Estudiantes de Ingeniería Eléctrica visitan Talleres de Mantenimiento del Metro Zaragoza en México D.F." [Students of Electric Engineering Visit Zaragoza Metro Station's Workshop in Mexico City]. Universidad Veracruzana (in Spanish). from the original on 28 September 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
10. "Temen por brote de coronavirus en estación Zaragoza del Metro" [Coronavirus outbreak feared at Zaragoza metro station]. La Jornada (in Spanish). Mexico City. Notimex. 3 May 2020. from the original on 3 June 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
11. "Metro CDMX celebra 52 años de la Línea 1, inaugurada en 1969" [CDMX Metro celebrates Line 1's 52 years, opened in 1969]. TV Azteca. 4 September 2021. from the original on 4 September 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
12. González, Juan Pablo (23 September 2021). "Cerrarán parcialmente la Línea 1 del Metro durante el primer semestre del 2022" [Metro Line 1 will be partially closed during the first half of 2022]. Noticieros Televisa (in Spanish). from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
13. "La L1 del Metro de CDMX cerrará de Pantitlán a Salto del Agua, desde el 11 de julio" [Metro Line 1 Will close station 11 July from Pantitlán to Salto del Agua]. La Lista (in Spanish). 27 June 2022. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
14. De la Rosa, Yared (29 October 2023). "Con 7 meses de retraso, reabren Línea 1 del Metro; sólo se podrá ingresar con tarjeta" [After a 7-month delay, Metro Line 1 reopens; access will be available with card only]. Forbes (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 October 2023.
15. "Cuando recorrimos la estación secreta del Metro en la CDMX" [When we visited CDMX's secret metro station]. Chilango (in Spanish). 6 August 2019. from the original on 14 February 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
16. "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.
17. "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.
18. "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.
19. "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.
20. "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.
21. "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.
22. "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.
23. "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.
24. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2013" [Station traffic per line 2013] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2014. from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.

External links

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