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Mexico City Metro Line 3
Mexico City Metro Line 3 is one of the 12 metro lines built in Mexico City, Mexico. Line 3 is the longest line, its color is olive green and it runs from north to south of the city covering almost all of it. It is built under Avenida de los Insurgentes, Guerrero, Zarco, Balderas, Cuauhtémoc, Universidad, Copilco and Delfín Madrigal avenues. It interchanges with Mexico City Metro Line 6, Line 6 at Deportivo 18 de Marzo metro station, Deportivo 18 de Marzo, Mexico City Metro Line 5, Line 5 at La Raza metro station, La Raza, Mexico City Metro Line B, Line B at Guerrero metro station, Guerrero, Mexico City Metro Line 2, Line 2 at Hidalgo metro station, Hidalgo, Mexico City Metro Line 1, Line 1 at Balderas metro station, Balderas, Mexico City Metro Line 9, Line 9 at Centro Médico metro station, Centro Médico. and Mexico City Metro Line 12, Line 12 at Zapata metro station, Zapata. Chronology *20 November 1970: from Tlatelolco metro station, Tlatelolco to Hospital General metro s ...
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Zapata Metro Station
Zapata is a station on Line 3 and Line 12 of the Mexico City Metro, in the Benito Juárez borough of Mexico City. The station logo depicts Emiliano Zapata, a national hero from the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1921. The station serves the Colonia Del Valle and Santa Cruz Atoyac neighborhoods in Benito Juárez. It is located at the intersection of Universidad, Zapata, Municipio Libre, Félix Cuevas and Heriberto Frías. Metro lines The station serves both lines as a transfer station and as the northwestern terminus of Line 12. This station used to be the terminus of Line 3; while the line has since been extended south, it still plays an important role in the transportation of the city's inhabitants. The metro station was opened on 25 August 1980. The Line 12 station was opened on 30 October 2012 as a part of the first stretch of Line 12 between Mixcoac and Tláhuac. Bus services Metro Zapata transfers to trolleybus Line "D", which runs between Metro Mixcoac Mixcoac i ...
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Mexico City Metro Line 6
Mexico City Metro Line 6 is one of the twelve metro lines operating in Mexico City, Mexico. Its distinctive color is red. It was the sixth line to be opened. The line was inaugurated in 1983 and it runs from northwest to northeastern Mexico City. Line 6 has 11 stations and a length of , out of which are for service. Line 6 is the second line in the entire Mexico City Metro network with least passengers, having 23,533,445 users in 2021. History Line 6 was opened on 21 December 1983, in the section that goes from El Rosario, serving the estate Unidad Habitacional El Rosario -the biggest estate in the country, to Instituto del Petróleo. The latter became the first transfer station when it was connected to the already existing station of Line 5. Three years later, on 8 July 1986, the second stretch of the line was inaugurated: from Instituto del Petróleo to Martín Carrera, connecting with Line 4. According to the Mexico City Metro Plan published in 2018 by the Sistema de Tr ...
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Alstom
Alstom SA is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer operating worldwide in rail transport markets, active in the fields of passenger transportation, signalling, and locomotives, with products including the AGV, TGV, Eurostar, Avelia and New Pendolino high-speed trains, in addition to suburban, regional and metro trains, and Citadis trams. Alsthom (originally Als-Thom) was formed by a merger between Compagnie Française Thomson-Houston and the electric engineering division of Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques in 1928. Significant later acquisitions included the Constructions Electriques de France (1932), shipbuilder Chantiers de l'Atlantique (1976), and parts of ACEC (Belgium, late-1980s). A merger with parts of the General Electric Company (UK) formed GEC Alsthom in 1989. Throughout the 1990s, the company expanded its holdings in the rail sector, via the acquisition of German rolling stock manufacturer Linke-Hofmann-Busch and Italian rail signall ...
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Hospital General Metro Station (Mexico City)
Hospital General is a metro station along Line 3 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City. General information This station transfers to the "S" trolleybus line, which runs between ISSSTE Zaragoza and Chapultepec. Hospital General serves passengers in the Colonias (neighborhoods) of Doctores and Roma. The station opened on 20 November 1970 when it served as the southern terminus of Line 3. Service southward towards Centro Médico started 10 years later on 7 June 1980. Image:MetroHospitalGeneralDF.JPG, Entrance to Metro Hospital General, almost completely obscured by sidewalk vendors Image:HospitalGralMexico.JPG, Hospital General de Mexico for which the station is named Name and iconography The station logo represents the symbol of International Red Cross. Its name refers to the General Hospital of Mexico The General Hospital of Mexico (Hospital General de México, HGM) is a hospital in Mexico City, operated by the Secretariat o ...
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Tlatelolco Metro Station
Tlatelolco is a metro station along Line 3 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Tlatelolco neighbourhood of the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, to the north of the downtown area. It serves the Unidad Habitacional Nonoalco-Tlatelolco mega apartment complex, famous for its Plaza de las Tres Culturas square (with buildings from the pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern eras) and infamous for the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre of demonstrating students. The station logo depicts the tallest building in the nearby Nonoalco-Tlatelolco residential estate, the triangular Torre Insignia, which was formerly a Banobras building. The tower houses a 47-bell carillon – a gift to the Mexican people from the citizens of Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th .... Metro ...
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Mexico City Metro Line 12
Line 12, also known as the Golden Line from its color on the system map, is a temporarily closed rapid transit line of the Mexico City Metro network. It travels along the Boroughs of Mexico City, boroughs of Benito Juárez, Mexico City, Benito Juárez, Iztapalapa and Tláhuac in southwestern, central-southern and southeastern Mexico City, serving twenty stations. The line was inaugurated on 30 October 2012, going from Tláhuac metro station, Tláhuac to Mixcoac metro station, Mixcoac station. In 2016, work to expand it to Observatorio metro station, Observatorio station started. Line 12 was built by Mexican construction company Empresas ICA in association with Alstom, Alstom Mexicana and Grupo Carso. It runs at At-grade railway, grade, Elevated railway, overground and underground levels. The interchange stations are Mixcoac (Mexico City Metro Line 7, Line 7), Zapata metro station, Zapata (Mexico City Metro Line 3, Line 3), Ermita metro station, Ermita (Mexico Cit ...
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Mexico City Metro Line 9
Mexico City Metro Line 9 is one of the 12 metro lines built in Mexico City, Mexico. General information Line 9 was the 8th metro line to be built in the network, built between 1985 and 1988. ( Line 8 started operations until 1994). It is identified by the color dark brown, and runs from East to West in an almost straight fashion. It was built in order to support Line 1, providing a redistribution alternative for east–west commuters. It starts in the multi-line transfer station Pantitlán and ends at the western neighborhood of Tacubaya, both stations also served by Line 1. As a comparison, the section between Pantitlán and Tacubaya is served by 19 stations in Line 1, whereas Line 9 has only 12, which would translate in a faster alternative. Line 9 is built in its easternmost section above the Rio Churubusco and Rio de la Piedad Avenues. Then it reaches an underground route near the Magdalena Mixiuhca Complex and it continues under the Eje 3 Sur until reaching the Tacubaya z ...
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Mexico City Metro Line 1
Mexico City Metro Line 1 is one of the twelve metro lines operating in Mexico City, Mexico. Officially inaugurated in 1969, it went to become the first metro line to be built in the country. Its identifying color is pink and it runs through the city from west to east. General information The line is built under several avenues: Parque Lira, Pedro Antonio de los Santos, Circuito Interior, Avenida de los Insurgentes, Avenida Chapultepec, Arcos de Belén, Balderas, Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas, José María Izazaga, Isabel la Católica, Anillo de Circunvalación, Congreso de la Unión, Eduardo Molina, and Ignacio Zaragoza. It commutes with Lines 7 and 9 at the Station Tacubaya, Line3 at Balderas, Line8 at Salto del Agua, Line2 at Pino Suárez, Line4 at Candelaria, LineB at San Lázaro and Lines 5, 9and A at Pantitlán. When Line12 extension is completed, it will also connect with Line12 at Observatorio. History The first section of Line 1 was opened on 4 September 1969 ...
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