 Observatorio | ||||||||||||||||
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 Platforms at Observatorio station in 2021 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Calzada Minas de Arena Álvaro Obregón Mexico City Mexico | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 19°23′54″N99°12′01″W / 19.398237°N 99.200363°W /19.398237; -99.200363 | |||||||||||||||
| System | STCrapid transit | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Sistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC) | |||||||||||||||
| Lines |  (Observatorio -Pantitlán) (Observatorio -Tláhuac) | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Connections | _El_Insurgente.svg) Observatorio (under construction) Observatorio stop (temporary) | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At grade Underground | |||||||||||||||
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| Status | In service Under construction | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 10 June 1972; 53 years ago (1972-06-10)Expected 2028; 3 years' time (2028) –2030; 5 years' time (2030) | |||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 2023–2025; 0 years ago (2025) | |||||||||||||||
| Passengers | ||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 0[1]  100% | |||||||||||||||
| Rank | 189/195[1] | |||||||||||||||
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Observatorio is a metrostation onMexico City Metro Line 1.[2] It is located in theÁlvaro Obregón borough ofMexico City, west of the city centre.[2] When operational it is the western terminus of Line 1.[2] Before its shutdown for reconstruction, the station had an average ridership of 72,296 passengers per day, making it the eighth busiest station in the network.[3]
The station will become the terminal station ofLine 12.[4] The station will also connect withObservatorio railway station of theEl Insurgente commuter rail system. Since 9 November 2023, part of the Line has remained closed for modernization work on the tunnel and the line's technical equipment.[5] Observatorio metro station was mostly demolished by December 2023, and it was reconstructed to facilitate the access between the Line 1, Line 12 and the El Insurgente stations.[6]
The station logo represents the stylised dome of an astronomical observatory.[2] It is named after an observatory that was built by theUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México at the top of a hill near the station.[7][8] However, due to thelight pollution that came as a consequence of urban growth hardly any observations were done in the observatory, and thus it was transformed into aplanetarium. Previously on the site was a colonial palace that belonged to the city'sBishop.[2]
This station is one of the most important metro terminus in the city. It serves Mexico City's western bus depot,[9] which connects with areas of westernMexico such asMéxico state,Michoacán,Jalisco,Querétaro and others.
The ObservatorioMexico City Metro station is the 1st station of Line 1 and theMexico City Metro system. Service at this station began on 10 June 1972. This Mexico City Metro train station is at ground level. The trains take passengers toTacubaya, Juanacatlán, Chapultepec, Sevilla, Insurgentes, Cuáuhtemoc, Balderas, Salto del Agua, Isabel la Catolica, Pino Suárez, Merced, Candelaria, San Lazaro, Moctezuma, Balbuena, Boulevard Puerto Aéreo, Gómez Farías, Zaragoza, and PantitlánMexico City Metro stations.
Originally Line 9 had its plans to end here, even pictograms in Line 1 showed this station as a transfer station for Line 9. But for an unknown reason the station was not built and the Line 9 finished at Tacubaya.
In 2017,Toluca-Mexico City commuter rail started test trains and will enter full service by 2025.
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| Year | Ridership | Average daily | Rank | % change | Ref. |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 189/195 | −100.00% | [1] |
| 2023 | 11,559,632 | 31,670 | 17/195 | −11.47% | [1] |
| 2022 | 13,057,993 | 35,775 | 14/195 | +7.22% | [1] |
| 2021 | 12,178,741 | 33,366 | 8/195 | −8.73% | [10] |
| 2020 | 13,343,431 | 36,457 | 9/195 | −49.43% | [11] |
| 2019 | 26,388,110 | 72,296 | 9/195 | −2.16% | [12] |
| 2018 | 26,970,170 | 73,890 | 9/195 | +0.77% | [13] |
| 2017 | 26,764,337 | 73,326 | 8/195 | −3.49% | [14] |
| 2016 | 27,732,577 | 75,772 | 8/195 | +0.08% | [15] |
| 2015 | 27,711,208 | 75,921 | 8/195 | +2.50% | [16] |
Observatorio will be the eastern terminus forEl Insurgente commuter rail when the line commences regular service, projected to begin its service in 2025.
As of March 2021, an extension ofLine 12 to Observatorio is under construction, which will connect it with Line 1.[17] The new Line 12 station is expected to open by 2021.[18]
As of 2018, the connection fromLine 9Tacubaya station towards Observatorio is planned, but a completion date has not been announced.[19] This would make Observatorio, together withTacubaya,Chabacano andPantitlán, the only transfer stations in theMexico City Metro network to have connections with three lines, in this case Line 1, Line 9 and Line 12.
In October 2020, Mexico City's government announced a project to renovate the Observatorio area and to build a terminal that will allow users to transfer betweenmetro, commuter rail and other public transportation services. It has been projected to be used by a million people every day and will be the most important complex of this type in Latin America. Works are expected to be finished by the end of 2025.[20]
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