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Balbuena metro stationШаблон:Efn is a station of the Mexico City Metro in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City. It is an underground station with two side platforms served by Line 1 (the Pink Line) between Moctezuma and Boulevard Puerto Aéreo stations. It serves the colonias (neighborhoods) of Jardín Balbuena and Moctezuma 1ª sección, along Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza. The station's pictogram features the silhouette of four flowers with four petals each, in reference to the Balbuena Garden, found in the neighborhood of the same name, and from which the station takes its name.

Balbuena station opened on 4 September 1969 with service westward toward Chapultepec and eastward toward Zaragoza. In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 13,431 passengers, making it the 133rd busiest station in the network and the second least used on the line. The facilities are partially accessible to people with disabilities as there are escalators and access ramps. From July 2022 to October 2023, the station was closed due to modernization works on the tunnel and the line's technical equipment.

Location

Image of a station entrance behind a car.
The northern entrance in 2020

Balbuena is a metro station located along Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza, in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City.[1] The station serves the colonias (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhoods") of Jardín Balbuena and Moctezuma 1ª sección. Within the system, the station lies between Moctezuma and Boulevard Puerto Aéreo.[1] The area is serviced by a Centro de transferencia modal (CETRAM), a type of transport hub.[2]

Exits

There are two exits:[1]

  • North: Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza and 17 Street, Moctezuma 1ª sección.
  • South: Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza and De la Portilla Avenue, Jardín Balbuena.

History and construction

Line 1 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Ingeniería de Sistemas de Transportes Metropolitano, Electrometro and Cometro, the latter a subsidiary of Empresas ICA.[3] Its first section opened on 4 September 1969, operating from Chapultepec to Zaragoza stations.[4] Balbuena is an underground station[5] that has a partially disabled-accessible service with escalators and access ramps.[1] The station's pictogram features silhouettes of four flowers with four petals each referencing the neighborhood's garden of the same name. In turn, the garden was named after Bernardo de Balbuena, a Spanish poet whose work includes "La grandeza mexicana" ("The Grandeur of Mexico").[1]

The Balbuena–Boulevard Puerto Aéreo tunnel is Шаблон:Convert long, while the Balbuena–Moctezuma section measures Шаблон:Convert.[6] In 2016, the station received renovation works; these included the addition of antibacterial porcelain sheeting and the installation of LED lighting technology, as well as the sealing of leaks and the replacement of electrical panels.[7]

On 20 January 2021, the station was flooded with sewage following a failure in the sump system attributed to power outages caused by the PCCI fire that occurred two weeks earlier.[8] The station was closed on 11 July 2022 for modernization work on the tunnel and technical equipment of the line.[9][10] Authorities reopened it fifteen months later, on 29 October 2023.[11]

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 12,400 and 15,700 daily entrances between 2013 and 2019; the station had a ridership of 4,902,639 passengers in 2019,[12] which was an increase of 111,634 passengers compared to 2018.[13] Also in 2019, Balbuena metro station was the 133rd busiest station of the system's 195 stations, and it was the line's second least used.[12]

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Year Ridership Average daily Rank % change Ref.
2022 1,606,016 4,400 164/195 Шаблон:Change [14]
2021 2,246,042 6,153 131/195 Шаблон:Change [15]
2020 2,734,008 7,469 125/195 Шаблон:Change [16]
2019 4,902,639 13,431 133/195 Шаблон:Change [12]
2018 4,791,005 13,126 130/195 Шаблон:Change [13]
2017 4,551,153 12,468 132/195 Шаблон:Change [17]
2016 4,942,850 13,505 125/195 Шаблон:Change [18]
2015 5,095,489 13,960 118/195 Шаблон:Change [19]
2014 5,442,959 14,912 109/195 Шаблон:Change [20]
2013 5,738,939 15,723 109/195 Шаблон:Change [21]

Notes

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References

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External links

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