Mexico City Metro Line B

Line B
San Lázaro station
Overview
Locale	Mexico City
Termini	Ciudad Azteca Buenavista
Connecting lines	at Oceanía at Morelos at San Lázaro at Garibaldi / Lagunilla at Guerrero
Stations	21
Website	metro.cdmx.gob.mx
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	Mexico City Metro
Operator	Sistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC)
Rolling stock	MP-68
Ridership	128,639,393 (2024)
History
Opened	15 December 1999 (1999-12-15)
Technical
Line length	20.278 km (12.6 mi)
Track length	23.722 km (14.7 mi)
Number of tracks	2
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge with roll ways along track
Electrification	Guide bar, 750 V DC
Route map Line B route highlighted in gray 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

Mexico City Metro Line B is one of the twelve metro lines operating in Mexico City, Mexico. It has 21 stations and a total length of 23.772 km (14.771 mi), 20.278 km (12.600 mi) service the line while the rest are used for maneuvers. Opened the 15th December 1999, it is the eleventh line to join the network. It serves the boroughs of Cuauhtémoc, Venustiano Carranza and Gustavo A. Madero located within the Mexico City proper, as well as the municipaliyies of Nezahualcóyotl and Ecatepec corresponding to the State of Mexico. It has interchanges with five metro lines, and its distinctive graphic identity colors are dark gray and silver, and it is the only line to use two colours to identify itself. Up to the year 2021, it was the fourth line on the network with the highest ridership, accounting for 87.5 million passengers.

Line B runs from downtown Mexico City north towards the municipality of Ecatepec de Morelos.

Currently, it is the only line in the whole metro network to use two distinctive colors: green and gray.

Alongside Line 12, Line B is one of the two metro lines of the network to have the three type of stations: underground, elevated and surface.

History

Line B under construction over Avenida Central in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl.

Line B was planned as a feeder line that would connect Mexico City to the adjacent municipalities of the State of Mexico, such as Ecatepec de Morelos and Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, therefore, instead of using the same numbering system as with the other metro lines, the line was named as Line B, same as in Line A, which connects Mexico City with the municipality of La Paz, also in the State of Mexico.

Line B was conceived in the early 1990s and was to originally named as Line 10. The 1994 Mexican peso crisis affected the construction of the line on its first stages as well as opposition from the citizens, specially those living in Santa María la Ribera, who claimed that Line B construction affected their houses, with damages such as sinking and breakage.

The first stretch of the line, from Buenavista to Villa de Aragón, was inaugurated on 15 December 1999 by Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico from 1994 to 2000, and Rosario Robles, Head of Government of the Federal District from 1991 to 2000. The second section, from Villa de Aragón to Ciudad Azteca, was opened on 30 November 2000, six years after it was planned.

An extension for Line B is planned, adding two more stations to expand the line westbound towards Colegio Militar, where line B would connect with Line 2.

Chronology

• 15 December 1999: from Villa de Aragón to Buenavista
• 30 November 2000: from Ciudad Azteca to Nezahualcóyotl

Rolling stock

• Alstom MP-68: 1999–present

Out of the 390 trains in the Mexico City Metro network, 36 are in service in Line B.

Station list

Key

	Fully accessible station			Cablebús connection			RTP connection
	Partially accessible station			Mexibús connection			Tren Interurbano connection
	CETRAM transfer station			Mexicable connection			Tren Suburbano connection
	ETRAM transfer station			Mexico City Metro connection			Trolleybus connection
	Ecobici bikeshare			Pesero connection			Xochimilco Light Rail connection

The stations from east to west and from south to north.

No.	Station	Date opened	Level	Distance (km)		Connection	Pictogram	Location
				Between stations	Total
01	Ciudad Azteca ‡	30 November 2000	Ground-level, overground access	-	0.0		Silhouette of the neighborhood's glyph	Ecatepec de Morelos	State of Mexico
02	Plaza Aragón ‡			0.7	0.7		A stand of pots from a tianguis
03	Olímpica †			0.9	1.6		Olympic rings
04	Ecatepec †			0.7	2.3		Ehecatépetl
05	Múzquiz †			1.6	3.9		A bust of Melchor Múzquiz
06	Río de los Remedios †			1.3	5.2		Sailboat	Nezahual­cóyotl
07	Impulsora †			0.6	5.8		Cart with an old hacienda
08	Nezahualcóyotl †			1.5	7.3		A coyote's head
09	Villa de Aragón ‡	15 December 1999		1.5	8.8	12 15A, 15C	A collection of houses	Gustavo A. Madero	Mexico City
10	Bosque de Aragón †			0.9	9.7	12	Three forest trees
11	Deportivo Oceanía †			1.3	11.0	11A, 12, 43 7B, 7D	Koala holding a soccer ball
12	Oceanía †		Elevated, overground access	1.0	12.0	43, 200 10D	Kangaroo
13	Romero Rubio †			1.0	13.0	10B, 18	Silhouette of a bust of Romero Rubio	Venustiano Carranza
14	Ricardo Flores Magón †			1.1	14.1		Portrait of Ricardo Flores Magón
15	San Lázaro ‡			1.1	15.2	East Bus Terminal (TAPO)	Steam locomotive
16	Morelos †		Underground, trench	1.4	16.6	18, 37 5A, 10E	Profile of José María Morelos
17	Tepito †			0.6	17.2	18, 33 10E, 11C	Boxing glove	Cuauhtémoc
18	Lagunilla			0.8	18.0	18 10E, 11C	Wild duck
19	Garibaldi/Lagunilla †			0.6	18.6	18, 27A 10E, 11C	A guitar and a sarape
20	Guerrero ‡			0.9	19.5	10E, 11C	Bust of Vincente Guerrero
21	Buenavista ‡			0.7	20.2	(at Buenavista) 10E, 11C, 12B (at distance)	Diesel locomotive

Renamed stations

Date	Old name	New name
2002	Continentes	Nezahualcóyotl
2008	Tecnológico	Ecatepec

Ridership

The following table shows each of Line B stations total and average daily ridership during 2019.

†	Transfer station
‡	Terminal

Rank	Station	Total ridership	Average daily
1	Buenavista‡	21,907,761	60,021
2	Ciudad Azteca‡	21,410,326	58,658
3	Múzquiz	11,246,650	30,813
4	Ecatepec	9,740,169	26,685
5	Impulsora	9,105,811	24,947
6	Lagunilla	8,394,391	22,998
7	Nezahualcóyotl	8,378,849	22,956
8	Tepito	8,233,487	22,557
9	Río de los Remedios	7,330,993	20,085
10	Plaza Aragón	7,198,356	19,722
11	Olímpica	6,112,152	16,746
12	Deportivo Oceanía	5,731,450	15,703
13	Villa de Aragón	5,398,782	14,791
14	San Lázaro†	4,533,326	12,420
15	Oceanía†	3,788,470	10,379
16	Romero Rubio	2,925,132	8,014
17	Garibaldi / Lagunilla†	2,709,631	7,424
18	Bosque de Aragón	2,193,804	6,010
19	Ricardo Flores Magón	2,142,619	5,870
20	Guerrero†	2,090,890	5,728
21	Morelos†	1,972,909	5,405
Total		152,545,958	417,934

Tourism

Line B passes near several places of interest:

• Plaza Garibaldi, a square known as Mexico City's home of mariachi music where mariachi bands can be found playing or soliciting gigs from visitors.
• Historic center of Mexico City

Crime

On its route, Line B passes through some places known for their levels of crime including Ecatepec de Morelos, Gustavo A. Madero, Venustiano Carranza, and neighborhoods such as Tepito and Colonia Morelos. Due to this, the line has a high rate of crime inside the stations and the trains, going from the presence of pickpockets and petty theft to armed robbery and sexual assault.

In 2017, at least three violent robberies were reported, in which armed men entered the wagons and stripped the passengers out of their belongings.

See also

• List of Mexico City Metro lines