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1985 plan for the Mexico City Metro with the earlier project for Line 12. In the 1980s, the Comisión de Vialidad y Transporte Urbano (COVITUR), an organization of the Federal District Department, presented a plan for the Mexico City Metro based on several studies and reports related to the rapid growth of the city and its demand for public transportation.
San Ángel. 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.
Felipe Ángeles International Airport (IATA: NLU, ICAO: MMSM), also known as Mexico City Felipe Ángeles International Airport or simply Mexico City-AIFA, is an international airport located in Zumpango, State of Mexico, 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of Mexico City. [4]
Santa Cruz Map. The Santa Cruz Map (Also known as the Uppsala map) is the earliest known city map of Mexico City as the capital of New Spain. The map depicts the city’s layout with its buildings, streets, and waterways surrounded by the lakes of the basin of the Valley of Mexico and the countryside beyond. In the map one can also see images ...
Federal Highway 95 (Carretera Federal 95) connects Mexico City to Acapulco, Guerrero. [5] The Autopista del Sol (The Highway of the Sun) is a tolled alternative (Route 95-D), which bypasses several towns of the state of Guerrero, including the city Iguala, and thus reduces transit time between Acapulco from Mexico city from 8 hours to almost 3.5 hours.
Historia de los nombres de las estaciones del metro. Mexico City 1973. Castañeda, Luis. M. Spectacular Mexico: Design, Propaganda, and the 1968 Olympics, chapter 5, "Subterranean Scenographies: Time Travel at the Mexico City Metro". Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2014. Davis, Diane E. Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth ...
Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built in early 1980s by Cometro, a subsidiary of Empresas ICA. [2] The line was inaugurated on 19 December 1981 and originally ran from Pantitlán (in Venustiano Carranza) to Consulado station (in the limits of Venustiano Carranza and Gustavo A. Madero), [3] with seven operative stations and a 9.154 kilometers (5.688 mi) long track. [4]
It operates between Colonia Buenavista, in central Mexico City and the Mexico City International Airport in the Venustiano Carranza borough, in the east of the capital. Line 4 has a total of 43 stations and a length of 40.5 kilometers divided into two routes, called the North and South routes, and goes mainly through Mexico City's downtown ...