Metro Pantitlán

Pantitlán
STC rapid transit
Line 5, platforms
Location	Iztacalco, Mexico City Mexico
Coordinates	19°24′55″N 99°04′20″W / 19.415359°N 99.072132°WCoordinates: 19°24′55″N 99°04′20″W / 19.415359°N 99.072132°W
Line(s)	Línea 1   Línea 5   Línea 9   Línea A
Services
Preceding station   Mexico City Metro   Following station Zaragoza towards Observatorio Línea 1 Terminus Hangares towards Politécnico Línea 5 Terminus Puebla towards Tacubaya Línea 9 Terminus Terminus Línea A Agrícola Oriental towards La Paz

Metro Pantitlán is a station on the Mexico City Metro.^[1] It is located in the Iztacalco borough, to the east of downtown Mexico City city centre. The architects were Aurelio Nuño Morales and Isaac Broid.^[2]

The station logo is the silhouette of two flags; this is because Pantitlán means "between flags" in the Aztec language Nahuatl.^[3]

Pantitlán station is the most important transfer station on the Mexico City Metro. It is the terminal for Lines 1, 5, 9 and A and has the highest user-traffic of the whole metro system. It is also one of the largest stations in the world, connecting four Metro lines, a trolleybus line (STE route Q), and around a hundred bus lines. It is the closest station to Terminal 2 of Mexico City International Airport, which is a 700 m walk away. Because of its large size and improvised design, it is important to follow the signs to the different platforms. The link with Line A allows Mexico State (Estado de México) inhabitants to travel to Mexico City faster and cheaper than by bus or other kinds of transportation. The station was opened for service along Line 5 on 19 December 1981, along Line 1 on 22 August 1984, along Line 9 on 26 August 1987, along Line A on 12 August 1991.^[4]

Some curiosities are that all "numbered" Metro lines, and Line B, use pneumatic traction (rubber-tired trains) and gather electricity from a third rail; trains on Line A use traditional rail traction, and gather electricity with a pantograph, from overhead wires. In addition, scenes for the 1990 motion picture Total Recall were filmed in the corridors and platforms of Metro Pantitlán.

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  Inside the Line 1 portion of Metro station Pantitlán above the tracks

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  Metro Pantitán terminal serving Lines A and 9 of the Mexico City Metro system

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  View of terminal platform at Pantitlán Line A section

References

1. Archambault, Richard. "Pantitlán (Line A) » Mexico City Metro System". Retrieved 7 August 2011.
2. Pantitlán Mexico Archived September 2, 2009 at the Wayback Machine
3. Page on Pantitlán station from official Metro website (in Spanish)
4. Monroy, Marco. Schwandl, Robert, ed. "Opening Dates for Mexico City's Subway". Retrieved 15 August 2011.

External links

• Media related to Pantitlán (station) at Wikimedia Commons