The station services the colonias (neighborhoods) of Peralvillo and Vallejo, along Avenida Río Consulado. The station is named after the nearby Calzada de los Misterios, an avenue with multiple hermitages depicting the Mysteries of the Rosary. The station's pictogram features one of them. In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 8,092 passengers, ranking it the 164th busiest station in the network and the seventh busiest of the line.
Location and layout
The platforms are below Avenida Río Consulado (pictured)
Misterios is an underground metro station along Avenida Río Consulado, in northeastern Mexico City.[2][3] It serves the colonias (neighborhoods) of Vallejo, in Gustavo A. Madero, and Peralvillo, in Cuauhtémoc. Misterios metro station has two exits that lead to Avenida Río Consulado and Calle Constantino. The northern exit goes to Colonia Vallejo and the southern one is at Colonia Peralvillo.[2]
Misterios' pictogram is based on one of the Mysteries of the Rosary located on Calzada de los Misterios (Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation pictured)
Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Cometro, a subsidiary of Empresas ICA. It opened on 19 December 1981.[8][9] The next section, where Misterios station is located, opened on 1 July 1982, the first day of service for the western expansion from Consulado to La Raza metro station.[10]
The tunnel between Valle Gómez and Misterios stations is 969 meters (3,179 ft) long.[11][12] During construction, workers uncovered part of a road that connected Tenochtitlan with the Tepeyac hill. The road was built with materials dating back to the Mesoamerican Postclassic Period.[13] The opposite side towards La Raza station emerges to the grade level and is 892 meters (2,927 ft).[11]
Originally, Line 8 (which runs from downtown Mexico City to Constitución de 1917 station in Iztapalapa) was planned to extend from Pantitlán in eastern Mexico City to Indios Verdes station, with a stop at Misterios.[16] However, the project was canceled due to potential structural issues it would have caused near the Zócalo area, as it was intended to interchange with Line 2 at Zócalo station. The plan for Line 8 was later modified to run from Indios Verdes to Constitución de 1917 station, still stopping at Misterios. But its construction did not progress beyond Garibaldi / Lagunilla metro station, which has served as its provisional terminal since 1994.[17][18]
Incidents
A train's railway coupler broke on 21 April 2020 near the station.[19][20] From 23 April to 15 June 2020, the station was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.[21][22] In the Misterios–Valle Gómez tunnel, a train window was ejected and caused a short circuit on 21 February 2021.[23] A train window was ejected in the tunnel between Valle Gómez, causing a short circuit on station 21 February 2021.[24]
Ridership
According to the data provided by the authorities, before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public transport, commuters averaged per year between 8,000 and 8,400 daily entrances between 2014 and 2019; the station had a ridership of 2,953,802 passengers in 2019,[25] marking a decrease of 107,804 passengers compared to 2018.[26] In 2019 specifically, Misterios metro station ranked as the 164th busiest station out of the system's 195 stations and was the seventh busiest on the line out of thirteen stations.[25]
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^"Línea 8, Ciudad de México" [Line 8, Mexico City] (in Spanish). iNGENET Infraestructura. 20 July 2009. Archived from the original on 24 November 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
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^ abc"Afluencia de estación por línea 2019" [Station traffic by line in 2019] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2020. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^ 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" [SStation 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.
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