Metro Politécnico

Metro Politécnico is a station on the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the north of Mexico City, in the Gustavo A. Madero municipality. It is the northern terminus for Line 5.[2][3] In 2019, the station had an average ridership of 34,587 passengers per day, making it the second most used station in Line 5, after the line's eastern terminus Pantitlán.[1]

Politécnico
STC rapid transit
LocationEje Central
Gustavo A. Madero
Mexico City
Mexico
Coordinates19°30′03″N 99°08′57″W
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeSurface
History
Opened30 August 1982
Traffic
Passengers (2019)12,624,212[1]  1.5%
Rank28/195[1]
Services
Preceding station STC Following station
Terminus Line 5 Instituto del Petróleo
toward Pantitlán
Location
Politécnico
Location within Mexico City

Name and pictogram

The station is named after the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), also sometimes shortened to Politécnico, a public university in Mexico, which is located right across the station.

The station's pictogram depicts a simplified version of the Politécnico emblem, represented by a half cogwheel, the stylised form of a building and the acronym IPN.[2][3]

General information

This station is located under the Eje Central 100 Metros Avenue.[2] It serves the Nueva Industrial Vallejo neighbourhood[2] and some workshops of bus lines like Omnibus de México,[4] ETN,[5] and Estrella Blanca.[6] It was opened on 30 August 1982.[7]

Inside the station there is a mural named La técnica al servicio de la patria (the IPN's motto) by an unknown author.

Ridership
Annual passenger ridership
Year Ridership Average daily Rank % Change Ref.
201912,624,21234,58728/195+1.51%[1]
201812,436,52534,07328/195–[8]

History

The station was opened on 30 August 1982 as part of the final stretch of Line 5, going from La Raza, and has been the northern terminus of the line since.[7]

During the eighties and nineties there were plans to expand Line 6 northbound towards the municipality of Tlalnepantla in the State of Mexico from the Politécnico station, but such projects never materialized.[9][10]

  • Mural La técnica al servicio de la patria inside the station

References
  1. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2019" (in Spanish). Metro CDMX. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  2. "Politécnico" (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  3. Archambault, Richard. "Politécnico - Mexico City Metro System". Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  4. "··· OMNIBUS DE MÉXICO ···" (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  5. ": : : ETN-TURISTAR : : :" (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  6. "Venta de Boletos Autobuses Estrella Blanca" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 10 August 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  7. Monroy, Marco. Schwandl, Robert (ed.). "Opening Dates for Mexico City's Subway". Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  8. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2018" (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  9. Programa Maestro del Metro (2a Rev.). Comisión de Vialidad y Transporte Urbano. 1985. p. 66.
  10. Plan Maestro del Metro y Trenes Ligeros. Sistema de Transporte Colectivo. 1996. p. 66.
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