Metro Politécnico


Metro Politécnico is a station on the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the north of Mexico City, in the Gustavo A. Madero municipality. It is the northern terminus for Line 5. In 2019, the station had an average ridership of 34,587 passengers per day, making it the second most used station in Line 5, after the line's eastern terminus Pantitlán.

Name and pictogram

The station is named after the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, also sometimes shortened to Politécnico, a public university in Mexico, which is located right across the station.
The station's pictogram depicts a simplified version of the Politécnico emblem, represented by a half cogwheel, the stylised form of a building and the acronym IPN.

General information

This station is located under the Eje Central 100 Metros Avenue. It serves the Nueva Industrial Vallejo neighbourhood and some workshops of bus lines like Omnibus de México, ETN, and Estrella Blanca. It was opened on 30 August 1982.
Inside the station there is a mural named La técnica al servicio de la patria by an unknown author.

Ridership

History

The station was opened on 30 August 1982 as part of the final stretch of Line 5, going from La Raza, and has been the northern terminus of the line since.
During the eighties and nineties there were plans to expand Line 6 northbound towards the municipality of Tlalnepantla in the State of Mexico from the Politécnico station, but such projects never materialized.

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