# Valle Gómez metro station

Valle Gómez metro station is a Mexico City Metro station within the limits of Gustavo A. Madero and Venustiano Carranza, in Mexico City. It is an underground station with two side platforms, serving Line 5 (the Yellow Line), between Misterios and Consulado metro stations. Valle Gómez metro station was inaugurated on 1 July 1982, providing northwestward service toward La Raza metro station and eastward service toward Pantitlán metro station.
The station services the colonias (neighborhoods) of 7 de Noviembre and Valle Gómez, along Avenida Río Consulado. The station is named after the neighborhood, a former paddock. The pictogram for the station represents an agave plant. In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 4,416 passengers, ranking it the 189th busiest station in the network and the least busiest of the line.

## Location

Valle Gómez is an underground metro station along Avenida Río Consulado, in northeastern Mexico City. It serves the colonias (neighborhoods) of 7 de Noviembre, in Gustavo A. Madero, and Valle Gómez, in Venustiano Carranza. Valle Gómez metro station has two exits that lead to Avenida Río Consulado. The northern exit is at the corner of Calle Norte 50, in Colonia 7 de Noviembre and the southern one leads to Avenida Real del Monte, in Colonia Valle Gómez.
Within the system, the station lies between Misterios and Consulado. The area is serviced by Routes 5-A and 20-A of the city's public bus system and by Route 200 of the Red de Transporte de Pasajeros network.

## History and construction

Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Cometro, a subsidiary of Empresas ICA. It opened on 19 December 1981. The next section, where Valle Gómez station is located, opened on 1 July 1982, the first day of service for the western expansion from Consulado to La Raza metro station.
The tunnel between Misterios and Valle Gómez stations is 969 meters (3,179 ft) long. 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. The opposite side towards Consulado station emerges to the grade level and is 679 meters (2,228 ft).
The station's pictogram represents an agave plant. It is named after the Valle Gómez family, who owned the former La Vaquita paddock in the area, where agave plants grew. The station also has an Internet café.

### Incidents

According to the system authorities, the section between Valle Gómez and Consulado stations is a common zone of copper wire thefts, which could potentially cause fires on the tracks From 23 April to 15 June 2020, the station was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico. A train window was ejected in the tunnel between Misterios, causing a short circuit on station 21 February 2021.

### 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 4,400 and 4,600 daily entrances between 2014 and 2019; the station had a ridership of 1,611,907 passengers in 2019, marking a decrease of 50,385 passengers compared to 2018. In 2019 specifically, Valle Gómez metro station ranked as the 189th busiest station out of the system's 195 stations and was the least busiest on the line out of thirteen stations.
Annual passenger ridership :
| Year | Ridership | Average daily | Rank | % change |
| 2023 | 1,451,279 | 3,976 | 171/195 | +11.57% |
| 2022 | 1,300,746 | 3,563 | 169/195 | +42.48% |
| 2021 | 912,959 | 2,501 | 180/195 | +5.65% |
| 2020 | 864,127 | 2,361 | 190/195 | −46.39% |
| 2019 | 1,611,907 | 4,416 | 189/195 | −3.03% |
| 2018 | 1,662,292 | 4,554 | 189/195 | +2.58% |
| 2017 | 1,620,478 | 4,439 | 189/195 | −2.26% |
| 2016 | 1,657,884 | 4,529 | 188/195 | +1.33% |
| 2015 | 1,636,122 | 4,482 | 180/195 | +1.76% |
| 2014 | 1,607,802 | 4,404 | 181/195 | −0.82% |
| Historical annual passenger ridership ||||||
| 2009 | 1,375,787 | 3,769 | 170/175 | — |