Potrero metro station

Potrero
STC rapid transit
The station's platform in 2022
General information
LocationAvenida de los Insurgentes
Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico City
Coordinates19°28′37″N 99°07′56″W / 19.47691°N 99.132171°W / 19.47691; -99.132171
Owned byGovernment of Mexico City
Operated bySistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC)
Line(s) (Indios VerdesUniversidad)
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Connections
Construction
Structure typeAt grade
AccessiblePartial
Other information
StatusIn service
History
Opened1 December 1979 (1979-12-01)
Passengers
20234,565,663 6.41%
Rank103/195
Services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station
Deportivo 18 de Marzo Line 3 La Raza
Location
Potrero
Location within Mexico City
Area map and station layout

Potrero metro station is a station of the Mexico City Metro along Avenida de los Insurgentes, in Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico City. It is an at-grade station with one island platform serving Line 3 (the Olive Line) between Deportivo 18 de Marzo and La Raza metro stations. Potrero metro station was inaugurated on 1 December 1979, providing northward service toward Indios Verdes and southward service toward Hospital General.

The station services the colonias (neighborhoods) of Capultitlan and Guadalupe Insurgentes. The station and its surrounding area are named this way because there used to be a hippodrome and Potrero's pictogram features the silhouette of a horse head behind a fence to reference a paddock. In 2019, Potrero station had an average daily ridership of 17,308 passengers, ranking it the 106th busiest station in the network and the third least used on the line. The facilities are partially accessible to people with disabilities as it is equipped with wheelchair ramps.

Since its opening, the station has experienced some incidents, including a train crash in the southbound tunnel, where one person died and 106 others were injured, and a sinking caused by local subsidence.