Buenavista metro station

Buenavista is a station on the Mexico City Metro, in the Colonia Buenavista neighborhood of the Cuauhtémoc borough.<ref name="metro">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="archambault">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is the southwestern terminal station of Line B (the green-on-silver line, Buenavista-Ciudad Azteca).<ref name="metro" /> It also offers connections to the Insurgentes Metrobús bus rapid transit line.<ref name="metro" /> In 2019, the station had an average ridership of 66,804 passengers per day, making it the tenth busiest station in the network.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Name and pictogram

The station logo represents the front of an ALCO type diesel locomotive.<ref name="metro"/><ref name="archambault"/> Its name comes from the nearby Estación Buenavista (Buenavista railway station) main line railway station, which closed its doors to passenger traffic in 1999,<ref name=silla>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> but then reopened for the new Tren Suburbano in 2008.<ref name="el_suburbano">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The metro station was opened on 15 December 1999.<ref name="monroy_history">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref name="metro"/>

Near Buenavista is the central administrative building of the Cuauhtémoc borough local government,<ref name="cuauhtemoc">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the library Biblioteca Vasconcelos,<ref name="vasconcelos">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and on Saturday mornings only the Tianguis Cultural del Chopo, a flea market dedicated to youth culture (mostly music),<ref name="chelico">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="midwesterner">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Forum Buenavista shopping mall.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Ridership

Annual passenger ridership
Year	Ridership	Average daily	Rank	% change	Ref.
2023	17,643,068	48,337	7/195	Template:Change	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2022	16,208,913	44,407	9/195	Template:Change	<ref name=passnrank22-23/>
2021	12,114,410	33,190	9/195	Template:Change	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2020	11,631,128	31,779	13/195	Template:Change	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2019	21,907,761	60,021	11/195	Template:Change	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2018	22,023,270	60,337	11/195	Template:Change	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2017	21,644,709	59,300	11/195	Template:Change	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2016	21,423,610	58,534	13/195	Template:Change	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2015	21,507,558	58,924	14/195	Template:Change	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2014	20,722,413	56,773	13/195	Template:Change	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>