Oceanía metro station

Oceanía metro station[lower-alpha 2] is a transfer station of the Mexico City Metro in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City. It is a combined elevated and at-grade station, along Lines 5 (the Yellow Line) and B (the Green-and-Gray Line). Oceanía is located between Aragón and Terminal Aérea metro stations on Line 5, and between Deportivo Oceanía and Romero Rubio metro stations on Line B. It serves the colonias of Pensador Mexicano and Aquiles Serdán. The station is named after Oceanía Avenue and its pictogram depicts a kangaroo, a representative animal from Oceania.

Not to be confused with Deportivo Oceanía metro station.
Pictogram of Oceanía metro station. It features the silhouette of a kangaroo. Oceanía
Mexico City Metro
STC rapid transit
Picture of the lobby of the station, including access turnstiles.
Line B lobby, 2021
General information
LocationRío Consulado Avenue and Oceanía Avenue
Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City
Mexico
Coordinates19°26′44″N 99°05′14″W
Owned byGovernment of Mexico City
Operated bySistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC)
Line(s)Mexico City Metro Line 5 (Politécnico – Pantitlán)
Mexico City Metro Line B (Ciudad Azteca – Buenavista)
Platforms
Tracks4
Connections
Construction
Structure type
AccessiblePartial
Other information
StatusIn service
History
Opened
  • Mexico City Metro Line 5 19 December 1981
  • Mexico City Metro Line B 15 December 1999
Passengers
20225,470,954[lower-alpha 1] Increase 33.06%
Rank
Services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station
Aragón
toward Politécnico
 Line 5 Terminal Aérea
toward Pantitlán
Deportivo Oceanía
toward Ciudad Azteca
 Line B Romero Rubio
toward Buenavista
Location
Oceanía is located in Mexico City
Oceanía
Pictogram of Oceanía metro station. It features the silhouette of a kangaroo. Oceanía
Location within Mexico City
Area map and exits

Oceanía metro station opened on 19 December 1981 with service northward toward Consulado and southeastward toward Pantitlán on Line 5. West service on Line B toward Buenavista station and northeast toward Villa de Aragón station started on 15 December 1999. The station facilities are partially accessible to people with disabilities as there are tactile pavings and braille signage plates. Since it was opened, Oceanía metro station has had some incidents, including two fake bomb threats and a train crash, where one person indirectly died and twelve others resulted injured. In 2019, the station had an overall average daily ridership of 18,953 passengers.

Location
Parcial view of the at-grade station with multiple cars along the avenue.
Line 5 platforms in 2008, as seen from Río Consulado Avenue

Oceanía is a metro transfer station in the Venustiano Carranza borough, in northeastern Mexico City. The station lies on Río Consulado Avenue and Oceanía Avenue, and serves colonias (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhoods") of Pensador Mexicano and Aquiles Serdán. Within the system, it lies between Aragón and Terminal Aérea stations on Line 5; on Line B, between Deportivo Oceanía and Romero Rubio stations.[2] The area is serviced by Line 4 (formerly Line G) of the trolleybus system,[2] by Routes 43 and 200 of the Red de Transporte de Pasajeros network,[3] and by Routes 10-D and 20-B of the city's public bus system.[4]

Exits

There are four exits:[2]

  • North: Norte 174 Street and Río Blanco Street, Pensador Mexicano (Line 5).
  • Southeast: Río Consulado Avenue, Pensador Mexicano (Line 5).
  • North: Río Consulado Avenue and Norte 170 Street, Pensador Mexicano (Line B).
  • South: Oceanía Avenue and Dinares Street, Aquiles Serdán (Line B).

History and construction
An image of the track system for Oceanía, where the Line 5 rails are located at grade, while Line B's are in an elevated viaduct.
The system's interchange tracks for Lines 5 and B

Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Cometro, a subsidiary of Empresas ICA;[5] Oceanía Line 5 opened on 19 December 1981, on the first day of the service between Consulado and Pantitlán metro stations.[6] The station was built at-grade level;[7] the Oceanía–Terminal Aérea interstation is 1,174 meters (3,852 ft) long[8] and goes from the street level to the below-the-ground one,[5] and the track had a 4.9% slope when it was opened.[9] The Oceanía–Aragón interstation is 1,229 m (4,032 ft) long[8] and presents subsidence in the tracks.[10]

Line B of the Mexico City Metro was built by Empresas ICA;[11] Oceanía Line B opened on 15 December 1999, on the first day of the then Buenavista–Villa de Aragón service.[12][13] The station was built above the ground.[14] The Oceanía–Deportivo Oceanía interstation goes from overground to the street level,[11] and it is 863 m (2,831 ft) long, while the Oceanía–Romero Rubio elevated section measures 890 m (2,920 ft).[8]

The passenger transfer tunnel that connects Line 5 with Line B has a short length and, according to Roberto Remes, director of Ciudad Humana MX—a sustainable mobility non-governmental organization—, it is too narrow and potentially dangerous for riders during rush hours.[15] The station's pictogram depicts a kangaroo, a representative animal from Oceania and its name references the avenue in which it lies.[2] The facilities are partially accessible to people with disabilities as there are tactile pavings and braille signage plates.[2]

In 2008, Metro authorities had maintenance work done on Line 5 station's roof.[16]

Incidents

2015 train crash

On 4 May 2015, at around 18:00 hours local time (00:00 UTC)[17] during heavy rain with hail,[18] two trains crashed while both were going toward Politécnico station.[19] The first train, No. 4, was parked at the end of Oceanía station's platform after the driver reported that a plywood board was obstructing the tracks.[20] The second train, No. 5, left Terminal Aérea station with the autopilot turned on despite the driver being asked to turn it off and to operate the train manually,[21] as the protocol requests it when it rains because trains have to drive with reduced speed.[22] Train No. 5 crashed into Train No. 4 at 31.8 km/h (19.8 mph)[21] – double the average on arrival at the platforms –[20] and left twelve people injured.[23]

According to the driver, the train slid due to the rain and hail, as he noticed it, he attempted to brake and later tried to deactivate the autopilot system. As both actions failed, he contacted the Central Control Center to request them to cut the energy. The Center did not reply and, as he realized the train would impact the parked one, he decided to jump out of the cab before the crash.[24] According to the train event recorder, the train had reached 54.66 km/h (33.96 mph) at the Oceanía–Terminal Aérea slope (whose subsidence increased to at least 7% since its opening)[25] and the driver did brake, reducing the speed to 49.7 km/h (30.9 mph), but was ineffective as the tracks were wet and the slope increased the speed to 53.6 km/h (33.3 mph).[20][26] The Metro system director, Joel Ortega, concluded that the accident was mainly a consequence of a "double human error"; the first one caused by the driver, who did not deactivate the autopilot when he was requested to do so, and the second by the Central Control Center regulator, who did not request Train No. 5 to stop at any point,[27] even when the Train No. 4's driver had warned he would stop the train due to the obstruction.[20]

Train No. 5 was a 40-year-old model that had been restored recently.[21] It was removed from circulation in 2011 after it presented multiple braking problems. By 2014, it returned and operated for four hours on Line 7 before being returned to the workshops. As Line 5 is one of the least used lines in the system, the train was placed there instead.[24]

After the crash, the station was temporarily closed for repairs;[28] a worker was killed when he fell to the tracks after a railcar in which he was standing uncoupled.[22][29] To reduce the slope subsidence caused by rainfall, a 1 km (0.62 mi) tunnel was planned, but due to a lack of budget that project was canceled.[30] Instead, an 800 m (0.50 mi) roof that cost 65 million pesos was built to prevent the tracks from getting wet and to avoid trains from sliding.[31]

Other

Two unrelated fake bomb threat incidents have occurred at Oceanía station. The first was in 1994 and was attributed to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation;[32] the second was unattributed and happened on 7 May 2015.[33] After the collapse of the elevated railway near Olivos station on Line 12 in May 2021, users reported the structural damage to other elevated stations, including Oceanía station.[34] Mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, said that the reports would be examined accordingly.[35]

On 6 June 2023, the station master died on the Line B tracks while performing track-switching work. While he was walking from one track to another, he stepped on a platform that broke. When he fell, he hit his head on a track, possibly the third rail. It was not disclosed whether he died from electrocution or from the impact.[36][37] System personnel reported the poor condition of the platform since 2022.[38]

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 8,300 and 8,700 daily entrances on Line 5 and between 9,800 and 11,000 daily entrances on Line B between 2013 and 2019.

Overall, the station had a ridership of 11,246,650 passengers in 2019,[39] which was an increase of 42,414 passengers compared to 2018.[40] For Line 5, the ridership was 3,129,656 passengers (8,574 per day), which was an increase of 54,327 passengers compared to 2018. For Line B, the station had a ridership of 3,788,470 passengers (10,379 per day), which was an increase of 176,461 passengers compared to 2018.[39][40]

In 2019, the Line 5 station was the 161st busiest of the system's 195 stations, and the line's 6th busiest. The Line B station was the 153rd busiest in the system and the line's 15th busiest.[39]

Annual passenger ridership (Line 5)
Year Ridership Average daily Rank  % change Ref.
20222,562,5287,020137/195+27.99%[1]
20212,002,1855,485139/195−21.16%[41]
20202,539,6216,938136/195−18.85%[42]
20193,129,6568,574161/195+1.77%[39]
20183,075,3298,425162/195+1.30%[40]
20173,035,7188,317161/195−3.43%[43]
20163,143,5478,588160/195−0.27%[44]
20153,151,9098,635148/195+2.80%[45]
20143,065,9598,399150/195−0.44%[46]
20133,079,6518,437159/195−5.95%[47]
Annual passenger ridership (Line B)
Year Ridership Average daily Rank  % change Ref.
20222,908,4267,968134/195+37.87%[41]
20212,109,5695,779137/195−14.15%[41]
20202,457,3756,714138/195−35.14%[42]
20193,788,47010,379153/195+4.89%[39]
20183,612,0099,895155/195+0.86%[40]
20173,581,3549,811154/195−6.92%[43]
20163,847,73410,512145/195−2.74%[44]
20153,956,25310,839132/195+3.77%[45]
20143,812,58110,445135/195−4.34%[46]
20133,985,37510,918140/195−4.38%[47]

Notes
  1. The Mexico City Metro system counts the entries from interchange stations separately. When counted individually, 2,562,528 passengers accessed through Line 5, while 2,908,426 passengers did it through Line B.[1]
  2. Estación del Metro Oceanía. Spanish pronunciation: [oseaˈni.a] ⓘ. The name of the station literally means "Oceania" in Spanish.

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