Eje Central metro station

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Eje Central metro station - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 19°21′41″N 99°09′05″W / 19.361351°N 99.151416°W

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Eje Central

STC rapid transit

Platforms

General information

Coordinates

19°21′41″N 99°09′05″W / 19.361351°N 99.151416°W

Operated by

Sistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC)

Line(s)

(Observatorio - Tláhuac)

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Construction

Structure type

Underground

Accessible

Yes^[1]

Other information

Status

In service

History

Opened

30 October 2012

Key dates

3 May 2021

Temporarily closed

15 January 2023

Reopened^[2]

Passengers

2023

2,628,353^[3]

Rank

137/195^[3]

Services

Preceding station	Mexico City Metro			Following station
Parque de los Venados toward Observatorio		Line 12		Ermita toward Tláhuac

Route map

Tláhuac yard

Parque de los Venados

Zapata

Hospital 20 de Noviembre

Insurgentes Sur

Mixcoac

Operational

Under construction

Valentín Campa

Álvaro Obregón

Observatorio

Location
Eje Central Location within Mexico City

Area map

Eje Central is a station on Line 12 of the Mexico City Metro.^[4] The station is located between Parque de los Venados and Ermita. It was opened on 30 October 2012 as a part of the first stretch of Line 12 between Mixcoac and Tláhuac.^[4]

Name and pictogram

The station receives its name due to being located at the intersection between Eje Central (Lázaro Cardenas) and Avenida Popocatépetl. The station's pictogram shows the outline of a Mexico City trolleybus, since Line 1 of Mexico City trolleybus service (also known as the Zero Emissions Corridor) runs all the way on the Eje Central.^[5]

General information

The station is located south of the city center in the Portales Sur neighborhood in the Benito Juárez borough and it is built underground.^[6]

From 23 April to 22 June 2020, the station was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.^[7]^[8]

Ridership

Annual passenger ridership
Year	Ridership	Average daily	Rank	% change	Ref.
2023	2,628,353	7,200	137/195	NA	^[3]
2022	0	0	176/195	−100.00%	^[3]
2021	664,899	1,821	187/195	−67.97%	^[9]
2020	2,075,787	5,671	153/195	−49.09%	^[10]
2019	4,077,416	11,171	147/195	+6.57%	^[11]
2018	3,826,126	10,482	151/195	+9.52%	^[12]
2017	3,493,383	9,570	155/195	+4.87%	^[13]
2016	3,331,007	9,101	154/195	+37.78%	^[14]
2015	2,417,695	6,623	168/195	−0.68%	^[15]
2014	2,434,342	6,669	170/195	−10.74%	^[16]

References

^ "12 datos de la 'La línea dorada' del Metro inaugurada este martes" (in Spanish). Aristegui Noticias. 30 October 2012. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
^ Navarrete, Shelma (15 January 2023). "A 20 meses del desplome de la Línea 12, reabren tramo Mixcoac-Atlalilco". Expansión (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 15 January 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
^ ^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.
^ ^a ^b Schwandl, Robert. "UrbanRail.Net > Central America > Mexico > Ciudad de Mexico Metro". Retrieved 2 May 2015.
^ "Eje Central". Sistema de Transporte Colectivo de la Ciudad de México. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
^ "Eje Central". Metro CDMX (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 March 2021.
^ "Cierre temporal de estaciones" (PDF) (in Spanish). Metro CDMX. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
^ Hernández, Eduardo (13 June 2020). "Coronavirus. Este es el plan para reabrir estaciones del Metro, Metrobús y Tren ligero". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 June 2020.
^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2021" [Station traffic per line 2021] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2020. Archived from the original on 7 March 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "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.

External links

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indicates the station is under construction or reconstruction

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