Misterios metro station

Misterios metro station[lower-alpha 1] is a Mexico City Metro station within the limits of Cuauhtémoc and Gustavo A. Madero, in Mexico City. It is an underground station with two side platforms, served by Line 5 (the Yellow Line), between La Raza and Valle Gómez stations. Misterios station serves the colonias (neighborhoods) of Peralvillo and Vallejo.

Pictogram of Misterios metro station. It features the silhouette of a three-story monument. Misterios
Mexico City Metro
STC rapid transit
Picture of a sign indicating one of the entrances to Misterios station
Station sign, 2006
General information
LocationRío Consulado Avenue and Constantino Street
Cuauhtémoc and Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico City
Mexico
Coordinates19°27′48″N 99°07′51″W
Owned byGovernment of Mexico City
Operated bySistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC)
Line(s)Mexico City Metro Line 5 (Politécnico – Pantitlán)
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Connections
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
Other information
StatusIn service
History
Opened1 July 1982 (1982-07-01)
Key dates
23 April 2020 (2020-04-23)Temporarily closed
15 June 2020 (2020-06-15)Reopened
Passengers
20221,696,494[1] Increase 38.37%
Rank145/195[1]
Services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station
La Raza
toward Politécnico
 Line 5 Valle Gómez
toward Pantitlán
Location
Misterios is located in Mexico City
Misterios
Pictogram of Misterios metro station. It features the silhouette of a three-story monument. Misterios
Location within Mexico City
Area map

The station receives its name from the Calzada de los Misterios, an avenue in Mexico City with many hermitages that reference the Mysteries of the Rosary; the station's pictogram features one of those hermitages. Misterios metro station was opened on 1 July 1982, on the first day of the La Raza–Pantitlán service. In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 8,092 passengers, making it the 164th busiest station in the network and the seventh busiest of the line.

Location

Misterios is a metro station located along Río Consulado Avenue, in northern Mexico City.[2] The station serves the colonias (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhoods") of Peralvillo, in Cuauhtémoc,[3] and Vallejo, in Gustavo A. Madero.[4] Within the system, the station lies between La Raza and Valle Gómez stations.[2]

The area is serviced by Line 7 of the Metrobús system at Misterios bus station, a few blocks away;[5] by Line 4 (formerly Line G) of the trolleybus system,[6] by Route 20-A of the city's public bus system,[7] and by Route 200 of the Red de Transporte de Pasajeros network.[8]

Exits

There are two exists:[2]

  • North: Río Consulado Norte Avenue and Constantino Street, Vallejo, Gustavo A. Madero.
  • South: Río Consulado Sur Avenue and Constantino Street, Peralvillo, Cuauhtémoc.

History and construction

Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Cometro, a subsidiary of Empresas ICA.[9] During the early excavations, a road that connected Tenochtitlan with the Tepeyac hill was found in the Valle Gómez–Misterios stretch. The road was built with materials dated from the Mesoamerican Postclassic Period.[10] Misterios is an underground station that was opened on 1 July 1982,[11] on the first day of the La Raza–Pantitlán service.[12] The interstation stretch between La Raza and Misterios goes from the street level to the underground one and it measures 892 meters (2,927 ft); the Misterios–Valle Gómez tunnel is 969 m (3,179 ft) long.[13]

The station is named after the nearby Calzada de los Misterios,[2] an avenue in Mexico City that connects the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe with the Paseo de la Reforma Avenue. Calzada de los Misterios has 15 hermitages along it. These were built in the 17th century and they reference and illustrate the Mysteries of the Rosary;[14][15] the station's pictogram represents one of those hermitages.[2]

Originally, Line 8 (which runs from downtown Mexico City to Constitución de 1917 station in Iztapalapa) was planned to run from Pantitlán to Indios Verdes station, in northern Mexico City. The project was canceled due to the potential structural issues it would have caused near the Zócalo zone as it was planned to interchange with Line 2 at Zócalo station.[16] The project of Line 8 was later modified to run from Indios Verdes to Constitución de 1917 station, with a transfer stop at Misterios station. However, its construction did not go beyond Garibaldi / Lagunilla metro station, its provisional terminal since 1994.[17][18]

Incidents

A train's railway coupler broke on 21 April 2020 near the station.[19][20] From 23 April to 15 June 2020, the station was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.[21][22] In the Misterios–Valle Gómez tunnel, a train window was ejected and caused a short circuit on 21 February 2021.[23]

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 8,000 and 8,400 daily entrances between 2013 and 2019; the station had a ridership of 2,953,802 passengers in 2019,[24] which was a decrease of 107,804 passengers compared to 2018.[25] Also in 2019, Misterios metro station was the 164th busiest of the system's 195 stations and it was the line's seventh busiest.[24]

Annual passenger ridership
Year Ridership Average daily Rank  % change Ref.
20222,347,4986,431145/195+38.37%[1]
20211,696,4944,647149/195+15.32%[26]
20201,471,0584,019170/195−50.20%[27]
20192,953,8028,092164/195−3.52%[24]
20183,061,6168,387163/195+2.05%[25]
20173,000,2508,219163/195+0.51%[28]
20162,985,0398,155165/195−0.67%[29]
20153,005,1928,233152/195−1.46%[30]
20143,049,5868,355151/195−0.43%[31]
20133,062,8148,391160/195−5.03%[32]
  • Picture of a sign indicating one of the entrances to Misterios station.
    Misterios lies below the Río Consolado Avenue
  • Picture of a three-story monument. From bottom to top, the foundation is a relieved wall; the next story features a depiction of the announcement by the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus. The last story features an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
    Misterios' pictogram is based on one of the Mysteries of the Rosary located in Calzada de los Misterios (Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation pictured)
  • Passengers are waiting for the arrival of a train on a platform.
    Platforms

Notes
  1. Estación del Metro Misterios. Spanish pronunciation: [misˈte.ɾjos] ⓘ. The name of the station literally means "Mysteries" in Spanish.

References
  1. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2022" [Station traffic per line 2022] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2023. Archived from the original on 5 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  2. "Misterios" (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro. Archived from the original on 5 July 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  3. "Colonia Peralvillo, Código Postal 06220, Cuauhtémoc, Distrito Federal" [Peralvillo, postal code 06220, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City] (in Spanish). Heraldo. Archived from the original on 10 July 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  4. "Colonia Vallejo, Código Postal 07870, Gustavo A. Madero, Distrito Federal" [Vallejo, postal code 07870, Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico City] (in Spanish). Heraldo. Archived from the original on 20 March 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  5. "Línea 7: significado de estaciones" [Line 7: meaning of stations] (in Spanish). Mexico City Metrobús. Archived from the original on 8 April 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  6. "Línea 5" [Line 5] (in Spanish). Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  7. "Red de corredores" [Route network] (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  8. "Red de Rutas" [Routes network] (in Spanish). Red de Transporte de Pasajeros. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  9. "Línea 5, Ciudad de México" [Line 5, Mexico City] (in Spanish). iNGENET Infraestructura. 20 July 2009. Archived from the original on 2 September 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  10. Sánchez Vázquez, Ma. de Jesús; Mena Cruz, Alberto; Carballal Staedtler, Margarita (2010). "Investigación Arqueológica en la Construcción del Metro" [Archaeological Research in the Construction of the Metro] (PDF) (in Spanish). Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 July 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  11. "Misterios Metro Station (Mexico City, 1982)". Structurae.net. Archived from the original on 11 July 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  12. Transporte: Seis años de esfuerzo conjunto [Transport: Six years of joint effort] (in Spanish). Vol. I. Government of the Federal District Department. 1987. p. 17.
  13. "Longitud de estación a estación por línea" [Station-to-station length per line] (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro. Archived from the original on 4 May 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  14. "La icónica Calzada de los Misterios" [The icononic Calzada de los Misterios]. El Universal (in Spanish). 12 March 2017. Archived from the original on 15 June 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  15. Fierro, Kevin A. (2008). The Mexico City Metro --User's Guide, Cultural & Historical Tour. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-6152-0611-0.
  16. Sánchez Vázquez, Ma. de Jesús; Mena Cruz, Alberto; Carballal Staedtler, Margarita (2010). "Investigación Arqueológica en la Construcción del Metro" [Archaeological Research in the Construction of the Metro] (PDF) (in Spanish). Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 July 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  17. "Línea 8, Ciudad de México" [Line 8, Mexico City] (in Spanish). iNGENET Infraestructura. 20 July 2009. Archived from the original on 24 November 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  18. "Las líneas del Metro que aún no se han construido" [Metro lines that have not being built]. Chilango (in Spanish). 15 February 2017. Archived from the original on 27 September 2019. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  19. Pantoja, Sara (12 April 2020). "Otro incidente en el Metro: se desprende tren en la Línea 5" [Another incident in the Metro: train detaches on Line 5]. Proceso (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  20. Lopez, Oscar; Ives, Mike; Taylor, Derrick Bryson; Eddy, Melissa (4 May 2021). "Mexico City's metro has been plagued by problems". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 4 May 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  21. "Cierre temporal de estaciones" [Temporal closure of stations] (PDF) (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  22. Hernández, Eduardo (13 June 2020). "Coronavirus. Este es el plan para reabrir estaciones del Metro, Metrobús y Tren ligero" [Coronavirus. This is the plan to reopen Metro, Metrobús and Light Rail stations]. El Universal (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  23. López, Jonás (21 February 2021). "Ventana 'sale disparada' de tren de Línea 5 del Metro" [Window 'blown out' of Metro Line 5 train]. Excélsior (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
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  25. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2018" [Station traffic per line 2018] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
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