Gómez Farías metro station

Gómez Farías metro station is a station of the Mexico City Metro in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City. It is an underground station with two side platforms served by Line 1 (the Pink Line) between Boulevard Puerto Aéreo and Zaragoza stations. It serves the colonias (neighborhoods) of Federal and Gómez Farías; the station receives its name from the latter, which in turn is named after Valentín Gómez Farías, the seventh president of Mexico (he served intermittently from 1833 to 1847). The pictogram depicts a representation of the Mexican Constitution of 1857, which was promoted by Gómez Farías during his tenure as the president of Congress. Gómez Farías metro station opened on 4 September 1969 with service westward toward Chapultepec station and eastward toward Zaragoza station. The facilities are partially accessible to people with disabilities as it has escalators. In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 28,385 passengers, making it the 48th busiest station in the network and the 11th busiest of the line. From July 2022 to October 2023, the station was closed due to modernization works on the tunnel and the line's technical equipment.

Location
Gómez Farías is a metro station located along Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza, in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City. The station serves the colonias (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhoods") of Federal and Gómez Farías. Within the system, the station lies between Boulevard Puerto Aéreo and Zaragoza.

Exits
There are two exits:
 * North: Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza and Relaciones Exteriores Street, Federal.
 * South: Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza and 31 Street, Gómez Farías.

History and construction
Line 1 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Ingeniería de Sistemas de Transportes Metropolitano, Electrometro and Cometro, the last one a subsidiary of Empresas ICA. Its first section opened on 4 September 1969, operating from Chapultepec to Zaragoza stations. Gómez Farías is an underground station; the Gómez Farías–Zaragoza tunnel is 762 m long, while the Gómez Farías–Boulevard Puerto Aéreo section measures 611 m. The station's pictogram features a silhouette of a representation of the Mexican Constitution of 1857, which was promoted by Valentín Gómez Farías during his tenure as the president of Congress.

It has a partially disabled-accessible service with escalators. The station was closed on 11 July 2022 for modernization work on the tunnel and technical equipment of the line. Authorities reopened it fifteen months later, on 29 October 2023.

Ridership
According to the data provided by the authorities since the 2000s, and before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public transport, commuters averaged per year between 28,300 and 42,100 daily entrances between 2013 and 2019; the station had a ridership of 10,360,851 passengers in 2019, which was a decrease of 1,800,444 passengers compared to 2018. Also in 2019, Gómez Farías metro station was the 48th busiest station of the system's 195 stations, and it was the line's 11th busiest.