Valle Gómez metro station

Valle Gómez is a metro station along Río Consulado Avenue, in northeastern Mexico City.^[2] The station serves the colonias (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhoods") of 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] The area is serviced by Routes 5-A and 20-A of the city's public bus system^[5] and by Route 200 of the Red de Transporte de Pasajeros network.^[6]

There are two exits:^[2]

• North: Río Consulado Norte Avenue and Norte 50 Street, 7 de Noviembre, Gustavo A. Madero.
• South: Río Consulado Sur Avenue and Real del Monte Avenue, Valle Gómez, Venustiano Carranza.

Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Cometro, a subsidiary of Empresas ICA;^[7] in the Valle Gómez–Misterios stretch, workers uncovered part of a road that connected Tenochtitlan with the Tepeyac hill.^[8] The road was built with materials dating from the Mesoamerican Postclassic Period.^[8]

Valle Gómez metro station is an underground station that was opened on 1 July 1982,^[9] on the first day of the La Raza–Pantitlán service.^[10] The interstation stretch between Valle Gómez and Consulado stations goes from underground to the at-grade level and it is 679 m (2,227 ft) long; the Misterios–Valle Gómez tunnel is 969 m (3,179 ft) long.^[11]

The station's pictogram represents an agave plant,^[12] 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]

According to the system authorities, the Consulado–Valle Gómez section is a common zone of copper wire thefts, which potentially can create fires in the tracks.^[13] From 23 April to 15 June 2020, the station was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.^[14][15] In the Misterios–Valle Gómez tunnel, a train window was ejected and caused a short circuit on 21 February 2021.^[16]

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 4,400 and 4,600 daily entrances between 2013 and 2019; the station had a ridership of 1,611,907 passengers in 2019,^[17] which was a decrease of 50,385 passengers compared to 2018.^[18] Also in 2019, Valle Gómez metro station was the 189th busiest station in the system and it was the line's least used station.^[17]

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  Valle Gómez's pictogram is based on an agave plant (agave salmiana pictured).

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