# Gómez Farías metro station

Gómez Farías metro station is a station of the Mexico City Metro in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City. It is an underground station with two side platforms serving Line 1 (the Pink Line) between Boulevard Puerto Aéreo and Zaragoza metro stations. The station was inaugurated on 4 September 1969, and opened the following day, with westward service toward Chapultepec station and eastward service toward Zaragoza station.
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.

## Location and layout

Gómez Farías is an underground metro station situated on Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza, in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City. The station serves two Colonias (neighborhoods), Federal and Gómez Farías, from which the station takes its name. The station's pictogram features a silhouette representing the Mexican Constitution of 1857, which was promoted by Valentín Gómez Farías during his tenure as president of Congress.
Within the system, Gómez Farías station lies between Boulevard Puerto Aéreo and Zaragoza metro stations. 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.

## 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. 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. 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).
The station was closed on 11 July 2022 for modernization work on the tunnel and technical equipment of the line. After fifteen months of renovations, authorities reopened Gómez Farías station on 29 October 2023. 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.

## 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, marking a decrease of 1,800,444 passengers compared to 2018. 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.
Annual passenger ridership :
| Year | Ridership | Average daily | Rank | % change |
| 2023 | 828,313 | 2,269 | 180/195 | −81.84% |
| 2022 | 4,560,126 | 12,493 | 94/195 | −37.85% |
| 2021 | 7,337,725 | 20,103 | 22/195 | −3.93% |
| 2020 | 7,637,970 | 20,868 | 24/195 | −26.28% |
| 2019 | 10,360,851 | 28,385 | 48/195 | −14.80% |
| 2018 | 12,161,295 | 33,318 | 32/195 | +1.87% |
| 2017 | 11,938,118 | 32,707 | 33/195 | −15.75% |
| 2016 | 14,170,037 | 38,715 | 23/195 | −6.34% |
| 2015 | 15,129,911 | 41,451 | 20/195 | −1.44% |
| 2014 | 15,350,466 | 42,056 | 20/195 | +0.58% |
| Historical annual passenger ridership ||||||
| 2009 | 13,964,126 | 38,257 | 22/175 | — |