La Magdalena metro station

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Estación La Magdalena
Quito Metro station
General information
LocationEcuador
Coordinates 0°14′16.5″S78°31′31.3″W / 0.237917°S 78.525361°W / -0.237917; -78.525361
Line(s)Line 1
History
Opened21 December 2022 (2022-12-21)
Services
Preceding station METROQ.svg Quito Metro Following station
El Recreo
toward Quitumbe
Line 1 San Francisco
toward El Labrador

La Magdalena is a Quito Metro station. It was officially opened on 21 December 2022 as part of the inaugural section of the system between Quitumbe and El Labrador. The revenue service started on 2 May 2023 and stopped on 11 May 2023. [1] It resumed on 1 December 2023. [2] The station is located between San Francisco and El Recreo. [1]

This is an underground station. [3] It is located at the intersection of Avenida Rodrigo de Chávez and Avenida Jacinto Collahuazo. [4]

On 23 January 2023, the first train with 600 passengers to whom invitations were extended arrived at the station. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 Schwandl, Robert. "Quito". urbanrail.
  2. "Así fue el primer día de operación comercial del Metro de Quito" [This was the first day of commercial operations of Quito Metro] (in Spanish). Primicias. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  3. "Construction of underground structures: Quito's first metro line". Acciona. Archived from the original on 2024-03-01. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
  4. "La avenida 5 de Junio se cerrará en entre la Gatazo y Rodrigo de Chávez". Últimas Noticias (in Spanish). 3 July 2017.
  5. "Desde este martes súbase al Metro de Quito" (in Spanish). Metro de Quito. 23 January 2023. Archived from the original on 10 June 2023. Retrieved 19 May 2023.