Viaducto station
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The story behind the icon
The station image represents the cloverleaf where the Viaducto and the Calzada de Tlalpan meet, with its access roads for cars.
One of the greatest problems faced by all large growing cities is, without doubt, traffic. To counter this, the then Department of the Federal District considered a way of making use of certain areas formed by the rivers that crossed the city: to pipe them along their central stretch and use their banks to build one-way fast roads. The Río de la Piedad was the one that offered the best conditions for creating a road with the features described above.
The design and the works were entrusted to the architect Carlos Lazo. Later the work was carried out, its route laid out with a length of 30 kilometres and a width of 60 metres, in the middle of which the Río de la Piedad would be housed and, on either side, two high-speed carriageways of three lanes each and two more lateral ones.
It was inaugurated in September 1950. The main connections were established with Avenida Revolución, Tacubaya, Avenida de los Insurgentes, Coyoacán, Cuauhtémoc, the Eje Central, the Calzada de Tlalpan and La Viga.