In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 17,308 passengers, making it the 106th busiest station in the network and the third-least used in the line. The facilities are partially
accessible to people with disabilities as it is equipped with access ramps.
Northeast: Insurgentes Norte Avenue and Victoria Avenue, Guadalupe Insurgentes.
Northwest: Insurgentes Norte Avenue and Poniente 116, Capultitlan.
Southeast: Insurgentes Norte Avenue and Excélsior Street, Guadalupe Insurgentes.
Northwest: Insurgentes Norte Avenue and Poniente 112, Capultitlan.
History and construction
Line 3 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Ingeniería de Sistemas de Transportes Metropolitano, Electrometro, and Cometro, the latter a subsidiary of
Empresas ICA;[8] Potrero metro station opened on 1 December 1979, on the first day of the
Indios Verdes–
Hospital General service.[9] The station was built
at grade level. The Potrero–La Raza stretch goes from the street level to the underground one[10] and its length is 1,106 meters (3,629 ft). Northbound, the Deportivo 18 de Marzo–Potrero section is 966 m (3,169 ft) long.[11] Horse, mammoth, fish and bird remains were found during its construction.[12]
Potrero station has a partially
disabled-accessible service with access ramps.[2] The station's pictogram features the silhouette of a head of a horse behind a fence. The station and its surrounding area are named this way because there used to be a
hippodrome during the
Porfiriato era (1876–1911;
Ex Hipódromo de Peralvillo in modern times); its paddocks were found in its northern zone.[2]
Incidents
On 14 December 2018, a private vehicle crashed into the Insurgentes Norte and Victoria entrance's walls after it was impacted by a public bus with no injuries reported.[13] On 19 July 2021, a man was stabbed and killed in the CETRAM's corridors in an apparent robbery.[14] On 7 January 2023,
two trains crashed inside the Potrero–La Raza interstation tunnel while both were going toward Indios Verdes metro station; one person was killed and 106 resulted injured.[15]
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 17,100 and 21,700 daily entrances between 2013 and 2019; the station had a ridership of 6,317,545 passengers in 2019,[16] which was an increase of 48,482 passengers compared to 2018.[17] Also in 2019, Potrero metro station was the 106th busiest station of the system's 195 stations, and it was the line's third-least used.[16]
^Estación del Metro Potrero. Spanish pronunciation: [poˈtɾeɾo]ⓘ. The name of the station
literally means "Paddlock" in Spanish.
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^"Afluencia de estación por línea 2017" [Station traffic per line 2017] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019.
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^"Afluencia de estación por línea 2016" [Station traffic per line 2016] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2017.
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^"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.