Misterios metro station
Misterios metro station is a Mexico City Metro station within the limits of Gustavo A. Madero and Cuauhtémoc in Mexico City. It is an underground station with two side platforms, serving Line 5, between La Raza and Valle Gómez metro stations. two side platforms metro station was inaugurated on 1 July 1982, providing northwestward service toward La Raza and eastward service toward Pantitlán metro station.
The station services the Colonia 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
Misterios is an underground metro station along Avenida Río Consulado, in northeastern Mexico City. It serves the colonia 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.Within the system, the station lies between La Raza and Valle Gómez. The area is serviced by of the city's public bus system by Route 200 of the Red de Transporte de Pasajeros network, Line 7 of the Metrobús system at Misterios bus station, a few blocks away, and by Line 4 of the trolleybus system.
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 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.The tunnel between Valle Gómez and Misterios stations is 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 La Raza station emerges to the grade level and is.
The station is named after the nearby, an avenue in Mexico City that connects the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe with Paseo de la Reforma. Calzada de los Misterios has fifteen hermitages, built in the 17th century, which reference and illustrate the Mysteries of the Rosary. The station's pictogram represents one of these hermitages.
Originally, Line 8 was planned to extend from Pantitlán in eastern Mexico City to Indios Verdes station, with a stop at Misterios. 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.