Valle Gómez metro station
Valle Gómez () is a Mexico City Metro station in the limits of Gustavo A. Madero and Venustiano Carranza, in Mexico City. It is an underground station with two side platforms, served by Line 5 (the Yellow Line), between Misterios and Consulado stations. Valle Gómez station serves the "colonias" of 7 de Noviembre and Valle Gómez; the station receives its name from the latter. The station's pictogram features an agave plant. Valle Gómez was opened on 1 July 1982, on the first day of the La Raza–Pantitlán service. In 2019, the station had an average  daily ridership of 4,416 passengers, making it the 190th busiest station in the network and the least busy of the line. Location. Valle Gómez is a metro station along Río Consulado Avenue, in northeastern Mexico City. The station serves the "colonias" (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhoods") of 7 de Noviembre, in Gustavo A. Madero, and Valle Gómez, in Venustiano Carranza. Within the system, the station lies between Misterios and Consulado stations. 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 . Exits. There are two exits: History and construction. Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Cometro, a subsidiary of Empresas ICA; in the Valle Gómez–Misterios stretch, workers uncovered part of a road that connected Tenochtitlan with the Tepeyac hill. The road was built with materials dating from the Mesoamerican Postclassic Period. Valle Gómez is an underground station that was opened on 1 July 1982, on the first day of the La Raza–Pantitlán service. The interstation stretch between Valle Gómez and Consulado goes from underground to the surface and it is 679 m (2,227 ft) long ; the Misterios–Valle Gómez tunnel is 969 m (3,179 ft) long. The station's pictogram represents an agave plant, and the station is named after the Valle Gómez family, owners of the former La Vaquita paddock, where agave plants would grow. There is an Internet café inside the station. Incidents. According to the system authorities, the Consulado–Valle Gómez section is a common zone of copper wire thefts, which potentially can create fires in the tracks. From 23 April to 15 June 2020, the station was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico. In the Misterios–Valle Gómez  tunnel, a train window was ejected and caused a short circuit on 21 February 2021. Ridership. According to the data provided by the authorities since the 2000s, Valle Gómez station has been one of the least busy stations of the system's 195 stations. Commuters have averaged per year between 2,300 and 5,000 daily entrances. In 2019, Valle Gómez station had a ridership of 1,611,907 passengers, which was a decrease of 50,385 passengers compared to 2018. In the same year, Valle Gómez was the 189th busiest station of the system and it was the line's least used station. Valle