Buenavista metro station

This article is about the Mexico City Metro station. For the Tren Suburbano station, see Buenavista railway station.

Buenavista is a station on the Mexico City Metro, in the Colonia Buenavista neighborhood of the Cuauhtémoc borough.^[2][3] It is the southwestern terminal station of Line B (the green-on-silver line, Buenavista-Ciudad Azteca).^[2] It also offers connections to the Insurgentes Metrobús bus rapid transit line.^[2] In 2019, the station had an average ridership of 66,804 passengers per day, making it the tenth busiest station in the network.^[4]

Buenavista
STC rapid transit
General information
Location	Mexico City Mexico
Coordinates	19°26′48″N 99°09′12″W
Line(s)	(Ciudad Azteca - Buenavista)
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Connections	Buenavista Buenavista Buenavista Buenavista
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	15 December 1999
Passengers
2023	17,643,068[1]  8.85%
Rank	7/195[1]
Services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station Guerrero toward Ciudad Azteca Line B Terminus
Route map Legend Ciudad Azteca workshops Ciudad Azteca Plaza Aragón Olímpica Ecatepec Múzquiz Río de los Remedios Impulsora Nezahualcóyotl State of Mexico Mexico City Villa de Aragón Bosque de Aragón Deportivo Oceanía Oceanía Romero Rubio Ricardo Flores Magón San Lázaro Morelos Tepito Lagunilla Garibaldi / Lagunilla Guerrero Buenavista This diagram: view talk edit
Location Buenavista Location within Mexico City Area map

Name and pictogram

The station logo represents the front of an ALCO type diesel locomotive.^[2][3] Its name comes from the nearby Estación Buenavista (Buenavista railway station) main line railway station, which closed its doors to passenger traffic in 1999,^[5] but then reopened for the new Tren Suburbano in 2008.^[6] The metro station was opened on 15 December 1999.^[7]

General information

In December 1999, the Buenavista metro station was opened as part of the first stretch of Line B, going from Buenavista to Villa de Aragón.^[2]

Near Buenavista is the central administrative building of the Cuauhtémoc borough local government,^[8] the library Biblioteca Vasconcelos,^[9] and on Saturday mornings only the Tianguis Cultural del Chopo, a flea market dedicated to youth culture (mostly music),^[10][11] and Forum Buenavista shopping mall.^[12]

As of 2020, Buenavista offers connections with the Ferrocarril Suburbano, a commuter rail that has Cuautitlán in the State of Mexico as final destination. Also, users can connect with Lines 1, 3 and 4 of the Metrobús, a bus rapid transit network.^[13]

Ridership

Annual passenger ridership
Year	Ridership	Average daily	Rank	% change	Ref.
2023	17,643,068	48,337	7/195	+8.85%	[1]
2022	16,208,913	44,407	9/195	+33.80%	[1]
2021	12,114,410	33,190	9/195	+4.16%	[14]
2020	11,631,128	31,779	13/195	−46.91%	[15]
2019	21,907,761	60,021	11/195	−0.52%	[16]
2018	22,023,270	60,337	11/195	+1.75%	[17]
2017	21,644,709	59,300	11/195	+1.03%	[18]
2016	21,423,610	58,534	13/195	−0.39%	[19]
2015	21,507,558	58,924	14/195	+3.79%	[20]
2014	20,722,413	56,773	13/195	−2.16%	[21]