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Observatorio metro station (Mexico City)

Coordinates: 19°23′54″N 99°12′01″W / 19.398237°N 99.200363°W / 19.398237; -99.200363
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Observatorio
Mexico City Metro
STC rapid transit
Platforms at Observatorio station in 2021
General information
LocationCalzada Minas de Arena
Álvaro Obregón
Mexico City
Mexico
Coordinates19°23′54″N 99°12′01″W / 19.398237°N 99.200363°W / 19.398237; -99.200363
Operated bySistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC)
Line(s)Mexico City Metro Line 1 (Observatorio - Pantitlán)
Mexico City Metro Line 12 (Observatorio - Tláhuac)
PlatformsMexico City Metro Line 1 2 side platforms
TracksMexico City Metro Line 1 2
Connections Observatorio (under construction)
Observatorio stop (temporary)
Construction
Structure typeMexico City Metro Line 1 At grade
Mexico City Metro Line 12 Underground
Other information
StatusMexico City Metro Line 1 Out of service
Mexico City Metro Line 12 Under construction
History
OpenedMexico City Metro Line 1 10 June 1972
Mexico City Metro Line 12 Expected 2024–2025
RebuiltMexico City Metro Line 1 2023–2024
Passengers
202311,559,632[1] Decrease 11.47%
Rank17/195[1]
Services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station
Terminus Line 1 Tacubaya
toward Pantitlán
Future services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station
Terminus Line 12 Álvaro Obregón
toward Tláhuac
El Insurgente
Location
Observatorio is located in Mexico City
Observatorio
Observatorio
Location within Mexico City
Map
Area map

Observatorio is an under-reconstruction station on Mexico City Metro Line 1.[2] It is located in the Álvaro Obregón borough of Mexico City, west of the city centre.[2] When operational it is the western terminus of Line 1.[2] Before its shutdown for reconstruction, the station had an average ridership of 72,296 passengers per day, making it the eighth busiest station in the network.[3]

The station will become the terminal station of Line 12.[4] The station will also connect with Observatorio railway station of the El Insurgente commuter rail system. Since 9 November 2023, part of the Line has remained closed for modernization work on the tunnel and the line's technical equipment.[5] Observatorio metro station was mostly demolished by December 2023. The station will be reconstructed to facilitate the access between the Line 1, Line 12 and the El Insurgente stations.[6]

Name and iconography

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The station logo represents the stylised dome of an astronomical observatory.[2] It is named after an observatory that was built by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México at the top of a hill near the station.[7][8] However, due to the light pollution that came as a consequence of urban growth hardly any observations were done in the observatory, and thus it was transformed into a planetarium. Previously on the site was a colonial palace that belonged to the city's Bishop.[2]

General information

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This station is one of the most important metro terminus in the city. It serves Mexico City's western bus depot,[9] which connects with areas of western Mexico such as México state, Michoacán, Jalisco, Querétaro and others.

The Observatorio Mexico City Metro station is the 1st station of Line 1 and the Mexico City Metro system. Service at this station began on 10 June 1972. This Mexico City Metro train station is at ground level. The trains take passengers to Tacubaya, Juanacatlán, Chapultepec, Sevilla, Insurgentes, Cuáuhtemoc, Balderas, Salto del Agua, Isabel la Catolica, Pino Suárez, Merced, Candelaria, San Lazaro, Moctezuma, Balbuena, Boulevard Puerto Aéreo, Gómez Farías, Zaragoza, and Pantitlán Mexico City Metro stations.

Originally Line 9 had its plans to end here, even pictograms in Line 1 showed this station as a transfer station for Line 9. But for an unknown reason the station was not built and the Line 9 finished at Tacubaya.

In 2017, Toluca-Mexico City commuter rail started test trains and will enter full service by 2024.

Ridership

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Annual passenger ridership
Year Ridership Average daily Rank % change Ref.
2023 11,559,632 31,670 17/195 −11.47% [1]
2022 13,057,993 35,775 14/195 +7.22% [1]
2021 12,178,741 33,366 8/195 −8.73% [10]
2020 13,343,431 36,457 9/195 −49.43% [11]
2019 26,388,110 72,296 9/195 −2.16% [12]
2018 26,970,170 73,890 9/195 +0.77% [13]
2017 26,764,337 73,326 8/195 −3.49% [14]
2016 27,732,577 75,772 8/195 +0.08% [15]
2015 27,711,208 75,921 8/195 +2.50% [16]
2014 27,036,330 74,072 8/195 −0.26% [17]

Future

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The station under reconstruction

Observatorio will be the eastern terminus for El Insurgente commuter rail when the line commences regular service, projected to begin its service in 2024.

As of March 2021, an extension of Line 12 to Observatorio is under construction, which will connect it with Line 1.[18] The new Line 12 station is expected to open by 2021.[19]

As of 2018, the connection from Line 9 Tacubaya station towards Observatorio is planned, but a completion date has not been announced.[20] This would make Observatorio, together with Tacubaya, Chabacano and Pantitlán, the only transfer stations in the Mexico City Metro network to have connections with three lines, in this case Line 1, Line 9 and Line 12.

In October 2020, Mexico City's government announced a project to renovate the Observatorio area and to build a terminal that will allow users to transfer between metro, commuter rail and other public transportation services. It has been projected to be used by a million people every day and will be the most important complex of this type in Latin America. Works are expected to be finished by the end of 2024.[21]

Exits

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  • Northeast: Av. Minas de Arena, Col. Pino Suárez
  • Northwest: Av. Minas de Arena, Col. Pino Suárez
  • Southeast: Real del Monte street, Col. Pino Suárez
  • Southwest: Real del Monte street, Col. Pino Suárez
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Entry sign for Metro Observatorio

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Afluencia de estación por línea 2023" [Station traffic per line 2023] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2024. Archived from the original on 27 January 2024. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Observatorio" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 June 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
  3. ^ "Estaciones de mayor afluencia 2019" (in Spanish). Metro CDMX. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Del Hospital de Cuajimalpa al Tren Interurbano: Las obras en CDMX para 2022". El Financiero (in Spanish). 29 January 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Cierre de la Línea 1: El ABC de las estaciones cerradas y el RTP". 9 November 2023.
  6. ^ "Adiós a la terminal de Observatorio: Metro CDMX demolió el inmueble tras 50 años de historia". 28 December 2023.
  7. ^ "Página del Observatorio Astronómico Nacional" (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 July 2011.
  8. ^ "UNAM - Portal de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México". Retrieved 24 July 2011.
  9. ^ "Central Camionera del Poniente" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 June 2011. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  10. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2021" [Station traffic per line 2021] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2022. Archived from the original on 7 March 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  11. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2020" [Station traffic per line 2020] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2021. Archived from the original on 21 June 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  12. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2019" [Station traffic per line 2019] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2020. Archived from the original on 8 April 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  13. ^ "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.
  14. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2017" [Station traffic per line 2017] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  15. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2016" [Station traffic per line 2016] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2017. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  16. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2015" [Station traffic per line 2015] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2016. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  17. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2014" [Station traffic per line 2014] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2015. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  18. ^ "Ampliarán Línea 12 del Metro del DF". Sipse (in Spanish). February 14, 2013. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  19. ^ "Ampliación de L12 del Metro podría concluir en 2019: Mancera". El Universal (in Spanish). 17 November 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  20. ^ "Metro alista ampliación de Línea 9 a Observatorio". El Universal (in Spanish). July 15, 2017. Retrieved August 15, 2018.
  21. ^ Ruiz, Joel (26 October 2020). "En la CDMX van por megaterminal de transporte público". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 December 2020.
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