Metro Terminal Aérea


Terminal Aérea is a station of the Mexico City Metro, located next to the Mexico City International Airport in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City. It is an underground station with 2 side platforms, served by , between Oceanía and Hangares stations. The station serves colonias Peñón de los Baños and Moctezuma.
Terminal Aérea station was opened on 1981, on the first day of then Consulado–Pantitlán service. The station's pictogram features an airliner and a control tower, and its name is on account of its proximity to the check-in areas of Mexico City International Airport Terminal 1. There are six murals painted by David Lach inside the station.

Location

Terminal Aérea is a metro station located on Puerto Aéreo Boulevard, Venustiano Carranza borough, eastern Mexico City, away from Mexico City International Airport,. On their Policy Review of Mexico, the OECD criticized the station for not having proper signage and for not being designed for travelers as they "must negotiate over " to reach it. Terminal Aérea also serves colonias Peñón de los Baños and Moctezuma in the Venustiano Carranza borough. Within the system, the station lies between Oceanía and Hangares stations.
The Metrobús station services the area, as well as of the trolleybus system.

Exits

of Mexico City Metro was built by Grupo ICA ; Terminal Aérea was opened on 1981, on the first day of the Consulado–Pantitlán service. Between the Oceanía–Terminal Aérea interstation, the track goes from surface to underground, and when it opened the track had a. The Terminal Aérea–Hangares interstation tunnel was built with slurry walls, using the Milan method. Terminal Aérea was built with Santo Tomás marble floors, travertine marble walls, stucco plafond, and inside there are six murals. The station logo represents an airliner in front of a control tower.
Before Terminal Aérea was built, Mexico City International Airport was serviced by Aeropuerto station on , located away. After Terminal Aérea was built, people still got off Aeropuerto due to the confusing name and pictogram, an airliner silhouette. It was until 1997 the station was renamed "Boulevard Puerto Aéreo" and the logo replaced with a pictogram of a bridge with a dome below, in reference to local features.

Incidents

On 4 May 2015, an accident took place in Oceanía station when a train coming from Terminal Aérea crashed another one parked at the end of the platforms. Since 1981, subsidence increased the Oceanía–Terminal Aérea slope to at least 7% and contributed to the crash. To reduce sinking, which is caused by rain, a is required, but due to lack of budget the project was canceled.
From 2020, Terminal Aérea, Hangares, and Pantitlán stations were closed due to a leak of gasoline in a surface petrol station.

Ridership

In 2019, Terminal Aérea had a ridership of , which was an increase of compared to 2018. In the same year, the station was the in the system, out of a total of, and the on.

Landmarks

Terminal Aérea station has six murals painted in 1981 by Mexican artist David Lach, becoming the first person to do it inside Mexico City Metro. Four murals, titled Paisajes cálidos y fríos, are located at the end of each platform ; according to Lach, they represent direction and temperature with the colors red and green. The other two murals are located in the lobby, titled Tlaltilco and Cuitzeo ; they represent a mixture of the era with contemporary Mexico.
A pedestrian bridge nicknamed "MacPuente" is located near the station. People use it as an improvised observation deck to see the landing and of airplanes.

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