Eduardo Molina
Station sign, 2012
General information
Location	Río Consulado Avenue Gustavo A. Madero andVenustiano Carranza,Mexico City Mexico
Coordinates	19°27′05″N99°06′20″W / 19.451378°N 99.105434°W /19.451378; -99.105434
System	STCrapid transit
Owned by	Government of Mexico City
Operated by	Sistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC)
Line	(Politécnico –Pantitlán)
Platforms	1island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Río Consulado Route: 200 Route:20-B
Construction
Structure type	At grade
Other information
Status	In service
History
Opened	19 December 1981; 43 years ago (1981-12-19)
Key dates
23 April 2020; 5 years ago (2020-04-23)	Temporarily closed
15 June 2020; 5 years ago (2020-06-15)	Reopened
Passengers
2023	1,873,834[1]  16.5%
Rank	153/195[1]
Services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station Consulado towardPolitécnico Line 5 Aragón towardPantitlán
Route map Legend Politécnico Instituto del Petróleo Autobuses del Norte La Raza Misterios Valle Gómez Consulado Eduardo Molina Aragón Oceanía Terminal Aérea Hangares Pantitlán This diagram: view talk edit
Location Eduardo Molina Location within Mexico City Area map and exits

Eduardo Molina metro station^[a] is aMexico City Metrostation within the limits ofGustavo A. Madero andVenustiano Carranza, inMexico City. It is anat-grade station with oneisland platform, servingLine 5 (the Yellow Line), betweenConsulado andOceanía stations. Eduardo Molina metro station was inaugurated on 19 December 1981, providing northwestward service toward Consulado and eastward service towardPantitlán.

The station services thecolonias of 20 de Noviembre and Malinche, alongAvenida Río Consulado. The station is named after Eduardo Molina Arévalo, an engineer who helped to solve the problem ofwater scarcityin the Valley of Mexico in the mid-20th century. Thepictogram for the station represents two hands holding water, as featured on the muralEl agua, origen de la vida, painted by Mexican muralistDiego Rivera. In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 6,811 passengers, ranking it the 176th busiest station in the network and the ninth busiest of the line.

Eduardo Molina is anat-grademetro station situated on themedian strip ofAvenida Río Consulado, in the limits ofGustavo A. Madero andVenustiano Carranza, Mexico City.^[2][3] It serves thecolonias (neighborhoods) of Malinche, in Gustavo A. Madero, and 20 de Noviembre, in Venustiano Carranza.^[2]

Eduardo Molina metro station has two exits that lead to Avenida Río Consulado. The northern exit is at the corner of Calle Norte 86, in Colonia Malinche and the southern one leads to Colonia 20 de Noviembre. Within the system, the station lies betweenConsulado andAragón.^[2] Route 20-B of thecity's public bus system and Route 200 of theRed de Transporte de Pasajeros network service the area.^[4][5] The area is serviced byLine 5 of theMetrobús rapid transit system atRío Consulado bus station located a few blocks away.^[6]

The station is named afterEduardo Molina Arévalo [es],^[2] a Mexican engineer who helped address the problem ofwater scarcity in the Valley of Mexico in themid-20th century through theLerma River system.^[7][8] The station'spictogram features two hands holding water, referencing a fragment of the muralEl agua, origen de la vida (lit. transl. Water, Origin of Life),[2] painted byDiego Rivera inside the main building of theCárcamo de Dolores, a hydraulic sump structure inChapultepec, Mexico City.^[9][10]

Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Cometro, a subsidiary ofEmpresas ICA.^[11] Its first section, where Eduardo Molina station is located, was opened on 19 December 1981, running fromPantitlán to Consulado metro stations.^[12]

The interstation section between Eduardo Molina and Aragón is 860 meters (2,820 ft) long, while the opposite side toward Consulado section measures 815 meters (2,674 ft).^[13]

Eduardo Molina metro station was temporarily closed for repairs after the2015 Oceanía metro station train crash.^[14] From 23 April to 15 June 2020, the station was temporarily closed due to theCOVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.^[15][16]

According to the data provided by the authorities, before theimpact of theCOVID-19 pandemic on public transport, commuters averaged per year between 6,800 and 7,500 daily entrances between 2014 and 2019; the station had a ridership of 2,486,165 passengers in 2019,^[17] marking a decrease of 75,730 passengers compared to 2018.^[18] In 2019 specifically, Eduardo Molina metro station ranked as the 176th busiest station out of the system's 195 stations and was the ninth busiest on the line.^[17]

• Media related toEstación Eduardo Molina (Metro de México) at Wikimedia Commons
• "Metro Eduardo Molina". At the Official Guide to Mexico City.
• Monzón, Jorge Arturo."Photos 1-12 of 12: Eduardo Molina". world.nycsubway.org.

• Mexico City Metro Line 5 stations
• Mexico City Metro stations in Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico City
• Mexico City Metro stations in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City
• Railway stations in Mexico opened in 1981

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