Zaragoza station opened on 4 September 1969 with service westward toward
Chapultepec station; service eastward toward Pantitlán started on 22 August 1984. The facilities are
accessible to people with disabilities as there are elevators,
tactile pavings, access ramps, and
braille signage plates; inside there is a cultural display, an
Internet café, and a health module. In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 46,475 passengers, making it the 18th busiest station in the network and the 6th busiest of the line. From July 2022 to October 2023, the station was closed due to modernization works on the tunnel and the line's technical equipment.
North: Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza and the entrance of the Regional Bus Station (CETRAM), 4 Árboles.
South: Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza and 65 Street, Puebla.
History and construction
Line 1 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Ingeniería de Sistemas de Transportes Metropolitano, Electrometro, and Cometro, the last one a subsidiary of
Empresas ICA.[5] Its first section opened on 4 September 1969, operating from Zaragoza towards
Chapultepec station.[6] Zaragoza is an underground station;[7] the Zaragoza–Gómez Farías tunnel is 762 meters (2,500 ft) long, while the Zaragoza–Pantitlán section measures 1,320 meters (4,330 ft).[8] When it was opened, Zaragoza station served as the terminal of Line 1, thus the
workshops are found after the station.[9][10] On 22 August 1984, Pantitlán station was opened to connect Lines 1 and
5.[11] The location of the workshop indirectly benefited the operations on the line as it allows the trains to depart to either station every 90 seconds.[5]
The station was named after
Ignacio Zaragoza, who was the
Secretary of War and Navy during the
Battle of Puebla, internationally celebrated as
Cinco de Mayo.[2] The station's
pictogram features a silhouette of the equestrian statue of Zaragoza located in the zone.[7] It has a
disabled-accessible service as there are elevators, access ramps,
tactile pavings and
braille signage plates, a cultural display, an
Internet café, and a health module.[2] The station was closed on 11 July 2022 for modernization work on the tunnel and technical equipment of the line.[12][13] Authorities reopened it fifteen months later, on 29 October 2023.[14]
Landmarks
The Instituto de Capacitacion y Desarrollo Zaragoza is near the station. The system's personnel is capacitated there with full-sized replicas and props of the facilities and their equipment. Otherwise known as Expometro, it can be visited by the general public with guided tours.[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 46,400 and 61,300 daily entrances between 2013 and 2019; the station had a ridership of 15,572,745 passengers in 2019,[16] which was a decrease of 1,390,692 passengers compared to 2018.[17] Also in 2019, Zaragoza metro station was the 18th busiest station of the system's 195 stations, and it was the line's 6th busiest.[16]
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