Metro Hangares
Location
Hangares is a metro station located on Fuerza Aérea Mexicana Avenue, in the Venustiano Carranza borough, in eastern Mexico City, that serves the colonia (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhood") of Federal. Within the system, the station lies between Terminal Aérea and Pantitlán stations. The station is located near the Mexico City International Airport. The area is serviced by Route 11-C of the city's public bus system.
Exits
There are two exits:
- North: Fuerza Aérea Mexicana Avenue, Federal.
- South: Correos y Telégrafos Street and Asistencia Pública Street, Federal.
Landmarks
A pedestrian bridge nicknamed "MacPuente" is near the station. People use it as an improvised observation deck to see the landing and take-off of airplanes.
History and construction
Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Cometro, a subsidiary of Empresas ICA, and its first section was opened on 19 December 1981, operating from Pantitlán to Consulado metro stations. Hangares is an underground station whose station pictogram features a biplane inside a hangar in reference to its proximity to the airports' hangars. For the Hangares–Terminal Aérea interstation tunnel, slurry walls were built using the Milan method, and it is 1,153 meters (3,783 ft) long; the Hangares–Pantitlán section goes from the underground level to the street level and it is 1,644 meters (5,394 ft) long.
Incidents
After the 2015 Oceanía metro station train crash, Hangares metro station was temporarily closed for repairs. From 1 to 16 March 2020, Terminal Aérea, Hangares, and Pantitlán stations were closed due to a leak of gasoline in a surface petrol station. From 23 April to 15 June 2020, the station was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.
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 4,800 and 5,200 daily entrances between 2013 and 2019; the station had a ridership of 1,772,609 passengers in 2019, which was a decrease of 721,611 passengers compared to 2018. Also in 2019, Hangares metro station was the 188th busiest station of the system and it was the line's second-least used station.
Annual passenger ridership | |||||
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Year | Ridership | Average daily | Rank | % change | Ref. |
2023 | 1,927,653 | 5,281 | 157/195 | +29.34% | |
2022 | 1,490,365 | 4,083 | 168/195 | +57.38% | |
2021 | 946,994 | 2,594 | 179/195 | +22.31% | |
2020 | 777,118 | 2,123 | 191/195 | −56.32% | |
2019 | 1,772,609 | 4,856 | 188/195 | −6.42% | |
2018 | 1,894,220 | 5,189 | 186/195 | +2.37% | |
2017 | 1,850,363 | 5,069 | 186/195 | +2.56% | |
2016 | 1,804,140 | 4,929 | 186/195 | −3.91% | |
2015 | 1,877,580 | 5,144 | 177/195 | +5.21% | |
2014 | 1,784,681 | 4,889 | 178/195 | −4.30% |