 Viaducto
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View of Metro Viaducto from Calzada de Tlalpan
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| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Calzada de Tlalpan Mexico City Mexico | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 19°24′03″N 99°08′13″W / 19.400808°N 99.136891°W / 19.400808; -99.136891 | ||||||||||
| Line(s) |  (Cuatro Caminos - Tasqueña) | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | At grade | ||||||||||
| Platform levels | 1 | ||||||||||
| Parking | No | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | No | ||||||||||
| Accessible | No | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1 August 1970 | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2023 | 4,290,859[1]  0.52% | ||||||||||
| Rank | 108/195[1] | ||||||||||
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Viaducto is a stationonLine 2 of the Mexico City Metro system.[2][3] It is located in the border of Benito Juárez and Iztacalco boroughs of Mexico City, south of the city centre on Calzada de Tlalpan.[2] It is a surface station.
It is represented by the stylised logo of a cloverleaf interchange, which represents crossing of Calzada de Tlalpan (a former Aztec road) and Viaducto Miguel Alemán, a crosscutting freeway that runs across the middle of the Federal District which opened in September 1950.[2][3][4] The station was opened on 1 August 1970.[5]
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| Year | Ridership | Average daily | Rank | % change | Ref. |
| 2023 | 4,290,859 | 11,755 | 108/195 | −0.52% | [1] |
| 2022 | 4,313,392 | 11,817 | 100/195 | +31.21% | [1] |
| 2021 | 3,287,377 | 9,006 | 97/195 | −22.77% | [6] |
| 2020 | 4,256,619 | 11,630 | 84/195 | −43.58% | [7] |
| 2019 | 7,543,940 | 20,668 | 85/195 | −2.20% | [8] |
| 2018 | 7,713,645 | 21,133 | 85/195 | +1.61% | [9] |
| 2017 | 7,591,103 | 20,797 | 84/195 | −0.08% | [10] |
| 2016 | 7,597,169 | 20,757 | 87/195 | −1.48% | [11] |
| 2015 | 7,711,654 | 21,127 | 83/195 | −2.43% | [12] |
| 2014 | 7,903,530 | 21,653 | 79/195 | −8.06% | [13] |
On October 20, 1975, at about 09:40 local time (15:40 GMT), two trains crashed, while both were going towards Tasqueña station. The first was parked at Viaducto station picking up passengers when it was hit by another train that did not stop in time. According to official reports, from 31 to 39 people died, and between 71 and 119 were injured. To date, it is the worst railroad accident recorded in the Mexico City Metro. The driver, Carlos Fernández, was found guilty and sentenced to 12 years in prison. After the crash, automatic traffic lights were incorporated to all lines.[14][15][16][17]
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