Metro Chabacano

Chabacano
Mexico City Metro
STC rapid transit
Line 8 platform at Metro Chabacano
Location Cuauhtémoc
Mexico City
Mexico
Coordinates 19°24′30″N 99°08′09″W / 19.408438°N 99.135754°W / 19.408438; -99.135754Coordinates: 19°24′30″N 99°08′09″W / 19.408438°N 99.135754°W / 19.408438; -99.135754
Line(s) Mexico City Metro Line 2 Mexico City Metro Line 8 Mexico City Metro Line 9
Platforms 12
Tracks 6
Construction
Structure type Mexico City Metro Line 2 Surface
Mexico City Metro Line 8 Mexico City Metro Line 9 Underground
Parking No
Bicycle facilities No
Disabled access Yes
History
Opened Mexico City Metro Line 2 1 August 1970
Mexico City Metro Line 8 20 July 1994
Mexico City Metro Line 9 26 August 1987
Services
Preceding station   Mexico City Metro   Following station
Línea 2
towards Tasqueña
Línea 8
towards Tacubaya
Línea 9
towards Pantitlán

Metro Chabacano is a station on Lines 2, 8 and 9 of the Mexico City Metro system.[1][2][3][4][5] It is located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, south of the city centre, on Calzada de Tlalpan.[1]

History

Chabacano means apricot in Mexican Spanish.[6][7] When Mexico City was expanding south towards Río de la Piedad (now tubed under the Viaducto Miguel Alemán)[8] city planners decided to name an avenue after the fruit that grew prodigiously next to the shore of the river. The same name was later on applied to the metro station that was built under the bridge made by Chabacano Avenue when it crosses above the Calzada de Tlalpan.[7]

Metro Chabacano was the first station on the Mexico City Metro to make use of a third, central platform for descending while the other two on the sides are used for ascending. This system was first used in the Barcelona Metro and is sometimes called the Spanish solution.

The station has several cultural displays and a small public library. There is a couple of mosaic murals on the side of the station belonging to Line 9.[1]

Scenes for the 1990 motion picture Total Recall were filmed in the corridors of Metro Chabacano; a fake blood spot still remains in a roof.[9]

On 28 December 2010 the station was the scene of a deadly accident when an elderly passenger tried to help two others who had dropped items onto the tracks fell onto the tracks himself and was killed by an approaching train on line 2.[10][11]

Exits

Line 2

  • East: Avenida San Antonio Abad between Juan A. Mateos street and Calzada Chabacano, Colonia Vista Alegre
  • West: Avenida San Antonio Abad between Manuel Caballero street and Antonio Solís street, Colonia Obrera

Line 8

  • North: Juan A. Mateos street and Vicente Beristain street, Colonia Vista Alegre
  • Southeast: Juan A. Mateos street and Vicente Beristain street, Colonia Vista Alegre
  • Southwest: Juan A. Mateos street and Vicente Beristain street, Colonia Vista Alegre

Line 9

  • Northeast: Calzada Chabacano and José Antonio Torres street, Colonia Vista Alegre
  • Southeast: Calzada Chabacano and José Antonio Torres street, Colonia Vista Alegre
  • Northwest: Calzada Chabacano and Francisco Ayala street, Colonia Ampliación Asturias
  • Southwest: Calzada Chabacano and Francisco Ayala street, Colonia Ampliación Asturias

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Chabacano" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 June 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
  2. ↑ Archambault, Richard. "Chabacano » Mexico City Metro System". Retrieved 29 July 2011.
  3. ↑ "Red de metro de México D.F." (in Spanish). Metros del Mundo. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
  4. ↑ "SECTURDF - ESTACIÓN CHABACANO". Retrieved 29 July 2011.
  5. ↑ "Estación Chabacano del Metro en la Ciudad de Mexico". Retrieved 29 July 2011.
  6. ↑ The Wiktionary definition of Chabacano
  7. 1 2 Sandoval, Cecilia (1 May 2008). "Myco – Estación Chabacano" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 28 March 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
  8. ↑ Legorreta, Jorge (16 October 2002). "Viaducto y Periférico, creaciones urbanísticas de Carlos Contreras". La Jornada. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
  9. ↑ "Film locations for Total Recall". Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  10. ↑ "Reanudan servicio en Metro Chabacano". El Universal (in Spanish). 28 December 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
  11. ↑ "HABRÍAN SIDO 2 LOS ARROLLADOS POR EL METRO EN ESTACIÓN CHABACANO" (in Spanish). 28 December 2010. Archived from the original on 24 June 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2011.


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