Metro Velódromo


Metro Velódromo is a metro station located on of the Mexico City Metro. It is named after the nearby Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome, or bicycle-racing venue, built for the
1968 Summer Olympics that were held in Mexico City.
Velódromo is an elevated station built at the portion of Line 9 that branches away from Viaducto Río de La Piedad to follow
Eje 3 Sur when travelling west toward Metro Tacubaya. The station opened on 26 August 1987. The logo for the station shows the silhouette of a bicycle racer.
It serves the Colonia Jardín Balbuena and the Granjas México neighborhoods.
Local bus service to the station includes trolleybus line S of STE, which runs west to Metro Chapultepec along the arterial thoroughfares known as Eje 2 Sur and Eje 2A Sur and is one of two high-frequency trolleybus lines that STE calls "Zero-Emissions Corridors".
From 23 April to 15 May 2020, the station was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.

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