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Balbuena metro station

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Balbuena (Spanish: [balˈβwena ] (listen)) 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 Moctezuma and Boulevard Puerto Aéreo stations. It serves the colonias (neighborhoods) of Jardín Balbuena and Moctezuma 1ª sección, along Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza. The station's pictogram features the silhouette of four flowers with four petals each, in reference to the Balbuena Garden, found in the neighborhood of the same name, and from which the station takes its name. Balbuena station opened on 4 September 1969 with service westward toward Chapultepec and eastward toward Zaragoza. In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 13,431 passengers, making it the 133rd busiest station in the network and the second least used on the line. The facilities are partially accessible for people with disabilities.

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Balbuena metro station
Calzada General Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexico City

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Calzada General Ignacio Zaragoza

Calzada General Ignacio Zaragoza
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Boulevard Puerto Aéreo metro station
Boulevard Puerto Aéreo metro station

Boulevard Puerto Aéreo (Spanish pronunciation ; Spanish lit. transl. "Air Port Boulevard") 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 Balbuena and Gómez Farías stations. It serves the colonias (neighborhoods) of Moctezuma, Santa Cruz Aviación, and Valentín Gómez Farías. It lies below Puerto Aéreo Boulevard, from which it receives its name, and it is near Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza. The station's pictogram features a silhouette of an air vent below a road bridge, in reference to a landmark found at the intersection of both avenues. The station is partially accessible for people with disabilities. Boulevard Puerto Aéreo station opened on 4 September 1969 as Aeropuerto (Spanish lit. transl. "Airport") with service westward toward Chapultepec and eastward toward Zaragoza. Because the station was the closest to the Mexico City International Airport at the time of its opening, the station's former pictogram featured the silhouette of an airliner. By 1981, this function was replaced by Terminal Aérea station on Line 5 (the Yellow Line). However, due to the constant confusion of travelers, the authorities changed the name and logo of the station in 1997. In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 23,095 passengers, making it the 63rd busiest station in the network and the 13th busiest of the line.

Terminal de Autobuses de Pasajeros de Oriente
Terminal de Autobuses de Pasajeros de Oriente

Terminal de Autobuses de Pasajeros de Oriente (Eastern Passenger Bus Terminal), better known by the acronym TAPO, is an inter-city bus station in Mexico City. It is located next to and conjoined with the Metro San Lázaro station, in the Venustiano Carranza borough in the eastern part of Mexico City. Designed by architect Juan José Diaz Infante Núñez, it is marked by its very large dome covering the structure. The outer rim of the circular interior contains ticket counters and boarding areas for bus lines. The center contains a food court and other businesses.The terminal serves travelers to fourteen states in the country, primarily to the east and south of Mexico City, such as to Puebla, Veracruz, Oaxaca and the Yucatan Peninsula. There are nine bus companies that operate from here with the four main companies being Estrella Roja, Autotransportes Texcoco, Autobuses de Oriente (ADO) and Grupo Texcoco. There over four hundred busses operating seventeen routes, with carry an average of 10,000 passengers per day. The terminal gets crowded during vacation periods and long holiday weekends. During these weekends, traveler totals are ten percent or more above normal. The busiest times are the Christmas and Holy Week periods, which can see anywhere from 180,000 to 220,000 passengers go through the terminal.The terminal was built in 1978 by the federal government under José López Portillo. In 2003, there were renovations including the pedestrian bridges, a tunnel for taxis, restructuring the main local bus stop, installation of street lighting and the banning of vendors.Crime has been an issue at the terminal. One reason for the problems is the rise in crime in the surrounding neighborhoods in general. Another has been the operation of unlicensed taxis although much of this has been relieved by the construction of an underground station for legal taxis. One particular problem at least since the 2000s has been the prostitution of children. Girls and young women as young as ten years old from poor parts of the country are targeted as they arrive to Mexico City. The terminal has over 2,000 security workers during peak times with twenty security cameras.In 2011, some of government efforts to encourage reading were centered on the terminal. In conjunction with the Autobuses de Oriente (ADO), consisting of free copies of books with texts by Mexican authors such as Elena Poniatowska, José Agustín and Efraín Huerta . Also, the first book “tianguis” or market began operating at the terminal, with books from twenty different publishers. It operates intermittently about every two months.