Gómez Farías station services the colonias (neighborhoods) of Federal and Gómez Farías along Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza. The station was named after the neighborhood, which itself honors Valentín Gómez Farías, the seventh president of Mexico (serving intermittently from 1833 to 1847). The station's pictogram depicts a representation of the Mexican Constitution of 1857, a document promoted by Gómez Farías during his tenure as president of Congress.
The facilities are accessible to people with disabilities as it has elevators, escalators and tactile pavings. In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 28,385 passengers, ranking it the 48th busiest station in the network and the 11th busiest of the line. Gómez Farías metro station was closed from July 2022 to October 2023 due to modernization works on the tunnel and the line's technical equipment.
Within the system, Gómez Farías station lies between Boulevard Puerto Aéreo and Zaragoza metro stations.[2] Gómez Farías metro station has two exits that connect to Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza. The northern exit is near Calle Relaciones Exteriores in Colonia Federal and the southern one close to Calle 31 in Colonia Gómez Farías. The station offers a disabled-accessible service with elevators, escalators, wheelchair ramps and tactile pavings.[2][4][5]
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.[6] Its first section, where Gómez Farías station is located, was inaugurated on 4 September 1969, operating from Chapultepec to Zaragoza metro stations. It opened to the general public the following day.[7] The tunnel between Gómez Farías and Zaragoza spans 762 meters (2,500 ft) in length, while the section between Gómez Farías and Boulevard Puerto Aéreo measures 611 meters (2,005 ft).[8]
The station was closed on 11 July 2022 for modernization work on the tunnel and technical equipment of the line.[9][10] After fifteen months of renovations, authorities reopened Gómez Farías station on 29 October 2023.[11]Excélsior reported in July 2024 that all the modernized stations had leaks of varying dimensions, with water filtrations detected in the walls of Gómez Farías station, resulting in constant runoff into the drains. This issue left damp marks and affected the facilities. Authorities had stated they would seal these leaks during the 2022 modernization repairs.[12]
Ridership
According to data provided by authorities, before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public transport, commuters averaged per year between 28,300 and 42,100 daily entrances between 2014 and 2019; the station had a ridership of 10,360,851 passengers in 2019,[13] marking a decrease of 1,800,444 passengers compared to 2018.[14] In 2019 specifically, Gómez Farías metro station ranked as the 48th busiest station out of the system's 195 stations and was the 11th busiest on Line 1.[13]
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^"Los primeros usuarios del Metro" [The First Metro Passengers]. El Universal (in Spanish). 5 September 2019. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
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^ ab"Afluencia de estación por línea 2018" [Station traffic by line in 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 2021" [Station traffic by line in 2021] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2022. Archived from the original on 7 March 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
^"Afluencia de estación por línea 2020" [Station traffic by line in 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 2017" [Station traffic by line in 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 by line in 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 by line in 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 by line in 2014] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2015. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
^"Afluencia de estación por línea 2009" [Station traffic by line in 2009] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2010. Archived from the original on 7 September 2010. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
