Metro Velódromo
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Velódromo Eastbound platform, 30 August 2008 Mexico City Metro Mexico City Metro The Mexico City Metro , officially called Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, is a metro system that serves the metropolitan area of Mexico City... |
Metro Mixiuhca
Metro Mixiuhca is a metro station along Line 9 of the Mexico City Metro serving the Colonia Jardín Balbuena and Colonia Magdalena Mixiuhca districts in the Venustiano Carranza borough of Mexico City, Mexico. The station's icon is a silhouette of a woman holding a newborn baby. In the Nahuatl...
Line 9
Ciudad Deportiva
Metro Ciudad Deportiva
Metro Ciudad Deportiva is a metro station along Line 9 of the Mexico City Metro. It is named for the nearby the Magdalena Mixhuca Sports City....
Metro Velódromo is a metro station
Metro station
A metro station or subway station is a railway station for a rapid transit system, often known by names such as "metro", "underground" and "subway". It is often underground or elevated. At crossings of metro lines, they are multi-level....
located on Line 9 of the Mexico City Metro
Mexico City Metro
The Mexico City Metro , officially called Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, is a metro system that serves the metropolitan area of Mexico City...
. It is named after the nearby Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome
Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome
The Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome is a velodrome located in the Magdalena Mixhuca Sports City sports complex located in Mexico City, Mexico. It hosted the track cycling events for the 1968 Summer Olympics....
, or bicycle-racing venue, built for the
1968 Summer Olympics
1968 Summer Olympics
The 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, Mexico in October 1968. The 1968 Games were the first Olympic Games hosted by a developing country, and the first Games hosted by a Spanish-speaking country...
that were held in Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
.
Velódromo is an elevated station built at the portion of Line 9 that branches away from Viaducto Río de La Piedad
Viaducto Miguel Alemán
Viaducto Miguel Alemán is a crosscutting freeway, opened in September 1950, that runs east-west across the middle of Mexico City. In the center of the road is a river encased in cement to control flooding...
to follow
Eje 3 Sur (Avenida Morelos) when travelling west toward Metro Tacubaya
Metro Tacubaya
Metro Tacubaya is a station on Lines 1, 7 and 9 of the Mexico City Metro system. It is located in the Miguel Hidalgo borough of Mexico City, west of the city centre....
. The station opened on 26 August 1987. The logo for the station shows the silhouette of a bicycle racer.
It serves the Colonia
Colonias of Mexico City
In Mexico, the neighborhoods of large metropolitan areas are known as colonias. One theory suggests that the name, which literally means colony, arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when one of the first urban developments outside Mexico City's core was built by a French immigrant colony...
Jardín Balbuena and the Granjas México neighborhoods.
In May 2004 after a law school student committed suicide by throwing herself onto the tracks at adjacent Metro Ciudad Deportiva
Metro Ciudad Deportiva
Metro Ciudad Deportiva is a metro station along Line 9 of the Mexico City Metro. It is named for the nearby the Magdalena Mixhuca Sports City....
service on Line 9 was truncated and only ran from Tacubaya to Velódromo and back.
See also
- Palacio de los DeportesPalacio de los DeportesPalacio de los Deportes is an indoor arena, located in Mexico City, Mexico, within the sports complex Magdalena Mixhuca Sports City, near the Mexico City International Airport and the Foro Sol, in which sports and artistic events are also celebrated. It is operated by Grupo CIE...
- nearby sports arena and indoor concert venue - Foro Sol - nearby baseball stadium and outdoor concert venue