Zaragoza metro station (Mexico City)

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.

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]

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]

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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.

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