Mercado_del_Mar_metro_station

Mercado del Mar metro station

Mercado del Mar metro station

Railway station in Zapopan, Mexico

Mercado del Mar is the sixteenth station of the Line 3 of the Sistema de Tren Eléctrico Urbano of Guadalajara from south-east to north-west and the third in the opposite direction.[1]

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History and construction

Before the construction of the station, a monument to Emiliano Zapata (created by Juan José Méndez) was removed from the area; its whereabouts remains unclear.[2] Another monument, but in honor to the Escuadrón 201 fighter squadron, was also removed and it was moved to a nearby location.[3]

On June 25, 2018, during the construction of the line, the governor of Jalisco, Aristóteles Sandoval, announced that the station name would be Estación Charros, in honour to the local baseball team Charros de Jalisco, whose home stadium (the Estadio Panamericano de Béisbol) is near the station.[4] The name was later replaced by the requests of Rosa Mosqueda and Ernesto Márquez, both representants of the Mercado del Mar Zapopan and of the Asociación de Productores y Comerciantes de Pescados y Mariscos de Jalisco A.C., respectively.[citation needed] The chosen name became Estación Mercado del Mar just like it was originally proposed in 2014.[5] The construction of Line 3 of the Guadalajara light rail system started at this station in August 2014.[6] By August 2017, Mercado del Mar station was the first one to be completed in a structural manner.[7] By February 2020, construction of the internal structure and equipment continued to affect the roadway.[8]

This station is located on the vial node where the following avenues converge: Av. Juan Pablo II from Zapopan, Av. José Parres Arias and Prol. Pino Suárez, as well as the López Cotilla and Pino Suárez Streets, all of which overall drive from and towards the Zapopan historic centre.[9] The logotype of the station is a swordfish leaping out of the water with a wale behind submerging.

Controversy

In May 2017, the girders of the steepest curve were being installed in the First Viaduct placed between the Mercado del Mar and Zapopan Centro stations. At the beginning of the earlier month (April), the Superior Auditor of the Federation (ASF) warned security risks on said curve which measures 105 metres; such failure was compared to the one presented by the Line 12 of the Mexico City Metro, but the Secretariat of Communications and Transport (SCT) cleared that there was no point of comparison between both infrastructures because different materials were employed.[10]

Points of interest

  • External view of the Mercado del Mar station
  • Steep turn of the First Viaduct, over the Juan Pablo II Avenue, between the Mercado del Mar y Zapopan Centro stations

References

  1. [1]
    "Propuesta arquitectónica de las estaciones, Línea 3 SITEUR". Government of Jalisco. Archived from the original on 2017-01-07. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
  2. [2]
    Serrano Jauregui, Iván (2021-04-26). "Zapopan pierde monumentos a Zapata y Hemiciclo a Juárez". Ciudad Olinka (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2021-05-12. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  3. [3]
    "Reinstalan en Zapopan el monumento en homenaje al Escuadrón 201". Quadrantin (in Spanish). 2021-02-26. Archived from the original on 2021-03-16. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  4. [4]
    "Disfrutar de béisbol en Jalisco". Secretariat of Tourism (in Spanish). Government of Jalisco. Archived from the original on 2022-07-04. Retrieved 2022-07-03.
  5. [5]
    "Cambiarán nombres a estaciones de la Línea 3 de Guadalajara". Publimetro. Archived from the original on 2020-10-25. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  6. [6]
    Pérez Vega, Ignacio (2020-05-31). "A casi seis años del arranque de la Línea 3 del Tren Ligero las obras siguen en proceso". UDG TV (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2021-11-29. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  7. [7]
    Jiménez Castro, José Luis (2017-08-18). "Está terminada la estación del Mercado del Mar estructuralmente: SITEUR". Notisistema (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2022-07-03. Retrieved 2022-07-03.
  8. [8]
    Hurtado, Roberto (2020-02-20). "Obras en Estación Mercado del Mar continúan afectando vialidad". Meganoticias (in Spanish). Guadalajara. Archived from the original on 2022-07-04. Retrieved 2022-07-03.
  9. [9]
    "Conoce nombre y ubicación de las estaciones de la Línea 3". GDL en Bici (in Spanish). 2020-09-11. Archived from the original on 2022-07-03. Retrieved 2022-07-03.
  10. [10]
    "Colocan trabes en curva señalada de la Línea 3" (in Spanish). Guadalajara, Jalisco: NTR Guadalajara. 2017-05-12. Archived from the original on 2018-04-25. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
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