Doctores metro station
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 Mosaic design on one of the station walls. | |||||||||||
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| Location | Colonia Doctores, Cuauhtémoc borough | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 19°25′18″N 99°08′36″W / 19.421612°N 99.143372°W | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 20 July 1994 | ||||||||||
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| 2018 | 4,393,370[1] | ||||||||||
| Rank | 136/195[1] | ||||||||||
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Metro Doctores is a station on Line 8 of the Mexico City Metro in the Colonia Doctores neighborhood of Cuauhtémoc borough, in central Mexico City.[2][3][4]
The station's logo is the silhouette of two doctors.[2][3] The station's entry walls have abstract mosaic murals created with azulejos (glazed tiles).
History
The Metro Doctores station is named after Colonia Doctores, whose streets commemorate famous doctors of the era of La Reforma.[2]
On 7 March 2007 a 30-year-old woman committed suicide at the station by throwing herself onto the tracks.[5] Service on the line was suspended for 20 minutes.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Afluencia de estación por línea 2018" (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ^ a b c "Doctores" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 8 August 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
- ^ a b Archambault, Richard. "Doctores » Mexico City Metro System". Retrieved 31 July 2011.
- ^ "ESTACIÓN DOCTORES" (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 July 2011.
- ^ a b Alejandro Medellín, Jorge (7 March 2007). "Se arroja mujer a vías del Metro en la estación Doctores". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 July 2011.
External links
Media related to Doctores (station) at Wikimedia Commons
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