Boulevard Puerto Aéreo metro station

Boulevard Puerto Aéreo is a metro station located along the avenue of the same name and Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza, in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City.^[2] The station serves the colonias (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhoods") of Moctezuma, Santa Cruz Aviación, and Valentín Gómez Farías. Within the system, the station lies between Balbuena and Gómez Farías.^[2] The area is serviced by a Centro de transferencia modal (CETRAM), a type of transport hub,^[3] Line 4 (formerly Line G) of the trolleybus system,^[2] by Route 43 of the Red de Transporte de Pasajeros network,^[4] and by Route 20-B of the city's public bus system.^[5]

Exits

There are six exits.^[2]

• North: Puerto Aéreo Boulevard, Santa Cruz Aviación.
• Northeast: Puerto Aéreo Boulevard, Santa Cruz Aviación.
• Northwest: Puerto Aéreo Boulevard, Moctezuma.
• South: Puerto Aéreo Boulevard, Valentín Gómez Farías.
• Southeast: Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza, Valentín Gómez Farías.
• Southwest: Puerto Aéreo Boulevard, Valentín Gómez Farías.

Line 1 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Ingeniería de Sistemas de Transportes Metropolitano, Electrometro and Cometro, the latter a subsidiary of Empresas ICA.^[6] Its first section opened on 4 September 1969, operating from Chapultepec to Zaragoza stations.^[7] Boulevard Puerto Aéreo is an underground station;^[8] the Boulevard Puerto Aéreo–Gómez Farías tunnel is 611 meters (2,005 ft) long, while the Boulevard Puerto Aéreo–Balbuena section measures 595 meters (1,952 ft).^[9] The station is partially accessible to people with disabilities.^[10] In 2016, the station received renovation works; these included repairs to ticket offices, floors, walls, ceilings, electrical installations, lighting, paging system and video surveillance system.^[11]

Originally the station was named Aeropuerto as it was the closest to the Mexico City International Airport, although it is located around 15 blocks away from it.^[12] Its original pictogram featured an airliner to symbolize it. In 1981, Terminal Aérea metro station on Line 5 (the Yellow Line) was built next to the airport, however, people still got off at Aeropuerto due to the confusing name and pictogram.^[13][14] It was until 1997 that the station was renamed "Boulevard Puerto Aéreo" and the logo was replaced with a pictogram of a bridge with a dome below in reference to a nearby air vent found below a bridge and whose purpose is to prevent the street garbage from entering the platforms.^[15]

The station was closed on 11 July 2022 for modernization work on the tunnel and technical equipment of the line.^[16][17] Authorities reopened it fifteen months later, on 29 October 2023.^[18]

Incidents

On 2 June 2021, the station received a bomb threat. After six hours of examinations, the Secretariat of Security discarded the existence of explosives.^[19]

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 22,800 and 30,300 daily entrances between 2013 and 2019; the station had a ridership of 8,429,972 passengers in 2019,^[20] which was an increase of 78,230 passengers compared to 2018.^[21] Also in 2019, Boulevard Puerto Aéreo metro station was the 63rd busiest station of the system's 195 stations, and it was the line's 13th busiest.^[20]

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