Metro Ciudad Deportiva

Metro Ciudad Deportiva (Spanish: Estación Ciudad Deportiva) is a metro station along Line 9 of the Mexico City Metro.[2][3] It is named for the nearby the Magdalena Mixhuca Sports City.

Ciudad Deportiva
STC rapid transit
Eastbound platform, 30 August 2008
LocationMexico City
Mexico
Coordinates19°24′30″N 99°05′28″W
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeElevated
History
Opened26 August 1987
Traffic
Passengers (2018)2,443,174[1]
Rank177/195[1]
Services
Preceding station STC Following station
Velódromo
toward Tacubaya
Line 9 Puebla
toward Pantitlán
Location
Ciudad Deportiva
Location within Mexico City

Magdalena Mixuhca Sports City was enlarged in 1967 as part of the project to create the venues needed for the 1968 Summer Olympics.[4] The Sports City is home to the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez (racetrack), the Foro Sol (baseball stadium and concert venue),[5][6] the Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome, and the Palacio de los Deportes (indoor arena).[4]

The station is elevated and sits in the median of the Viaducto Río Piedad. It was opened 26 August 1987.[7] The logo for the station represents a player engaged in a Mesoamerican ballgame (a similar logo is used for Metro Deportivo 18 de Marzo on lines 3 and 6).[2]

In December 2009 a man in his 30s was shot twice in the back at the station.[8]

From 23 April to 15 May 2020,[9] the station was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.[10]

References

  1. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2018" (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  2. "Ciudad Deportiva" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  3. Archambault, Richard. "Ciudad Deportiva » Mexico City Metro System". Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  4. "THE IOC SECRETARY GENERAL IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA" (pdf). December 1967. pp. 4, 5, 6. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  5. "Rock, Intensidad y decepción Vive Latino". El Siglo de Torreón (in Spanish). 26 April 2010. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  6. "El Porvenir : En Escena : Reventa encarece boletos para el Vive Latino". El Porvenir (in Spanish). 10 March 2011. Archived from the original on 11 April 2011. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  7. "Ciudad Deportiva Metro Station (1987) - Structurae". Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  8. "LO MATAN A BALAZOS JUNTO A ESTACION DEL METRO CIUDAD DEPORTIVA" (in Spanish). 5 December 2009. Archived from the original on March 27, 2012. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  9. Hernández, Eduardo (15 May 2020). "Reabren mañana estaciones Velódromo y Ciudad Deportiva del Metro". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  10. "Cierre temporal de estaciones" (PDF) (in Spanish). Metro CDMX. Retrieved 25 April 2020.


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