Metro Buenavista


Metro Buenavista is a station on the Mexico City Metro, in the Colonia Buenavista neighborhood of the Cuauhtémoc borough. It is the southwestern terminal station of Line B. It also offers connections to the Insurgentes Metrobús bus rapid transit line. In 2019, the station had an average ridership of 66,804 passengers per day, making it the tenth busiest station in the network.

Name and pictogram

The station logo represents the front of an ALCO type diesel locomotive. Its name comes from the nearby Estación Buenavista main line railway station, which closed its doors to passenger traffic in 1999, but then reopened for the new Tren Suburbano in 2008. The metro station was opened on 15 December 1999.

General information

In December 1999, the Buenavista metro station was opened as part of the first stretch of Line B, going from Buenavista to Villa de Aragón.
Near Metro Buenavista is the central administrative building of the Cuauhtémoc borough local government, the library Biblioteca Vasconcelos, and on Saturday mornings only the Tianguis Cultural del Chopo, a flea market dedicated to youth culture, and Forum Buenavista shopping mall.
As of 2020, Metro Buenavista offers connections with the Ferrocarril Suburbano, a commuter rail that has Cuautitlán in the State of Mexico as final destination. Also, users can connect with Lines 1, 3 and 4 of the Metrobús, a bus rapid transit network.