Meet halfway in Monterrey
For a group meeting in Monterrey, the fairest points are usually Metrorrey interchanges - Cuauhtémoc, Félix U. Gómez or Zaragoza by the Macroplaza - though most trips across the metro area are made by car or bus. Which one is fairest depends on where everyone starts: togather times each person door to door and finds the spots where nobody is stuck with a much longer trip.
- Metrorrey
- Ecovía
- Buses
- Car
- Cycling
- Walking
Where groups actually meet in Monterrey
Interchanges that work as a fair midpoint for most groups. togather will not always land on one of these - it answers for your actual starting points - but they are the ones that come up again and again.
Cuauhtémoc
Metrorrey lines 1 and 2
The original crossing of the network, just north of the centre, and the most reachable rail point for a group split between the east-west and north-south lines.
Félix U. Gómez
Metrorrey lines 1 and 3
Where Line 3 meets Line 1 east of the centre, and the fair answer for a group with people coming in from the north-east along Line 3.
Zaragoza
Metrorrey lines 2 and 3
Under the Macroplaza, where Line 2 and Line 3 connect, which gives a group the city's main square and Barrio Antiguo to walk to once everyone arrives.
Parque Fundidora
Metrorrey Line 1
Beside the former steelworks park, and a good pick for a group mostly to the east of the centre who want open space and somewhere to sit outdoors.
Central
Metrorrey Line 1 and intercity buses
By the main bus station, and the natural choice when someone in the group is arriving from outside Monterrey or lives along the western stretch of Line 1.
Hospital Metropolitano
Metrorrey Line 3 and Transmetro feeder buses
The far end of Line 3, linked to Transmetro feeder buses, and fairer than downtown for a group living in the north-east of the metro area.
How to pick a fair meeting point in Monterrey
Monterrey sprawls across a valley ringed by mountains, and the metro area spreads into San Pedro Garza García, San Nicolás, Guadalupe, Apodaca and Santa Catarina. Most people get around by car, and the rail network covers only part of it. The map’s midpoint usually ignores that: it can land on the far side of the Río Santa Catarina or on a road that is blocked solid at rush hour.
Metrorrey’s three lines meet in just a few places, and those are the only points the transit riders in a group share. Cuauhtémoc joins lines 1 and 2, Félix U. Gómez joins lines 1 and 3, and Zaragoza links lines 2 and 3 at the Macroplaza. Everything else depends on buses and the Ecovía corridor.
San Pedro groups may not need a station at all
Downtown is not neutral. A group spread across San Nicolás and the north-east is better served by Hospital Metropolitano or Félix U. Gómez than by a ride to the Macroplaza. A group mostly in San Pedro and the south may be better off somewhere off the rail map altogether, since nobody there takes the Metro. In that case the fair point is the one that keeps every driver off the most congested crossings at the hour you meet.
Summer heat here regularly passes 38 degrees, which makes a long walk from the station a real cost. togather includes that walk when it times each person, and treats drivers and Metrorrey riders separately, so the places it suggests are ones where the whole group spends a similar time getting there.
Meeting halfway in Monterrey - questions
- Where is a fair place to meet halfway in Monterrey?
- Usually a Metrorrey interchange rather than the map's middle - Cuauhtémoc or Zaragoza for the centre, Félix U. Gómez for the east and north-east. If the group lives in San Pedro or the south, togather often lands off the rail map.
- Most of us drive. Does it still work?
- Yes, and here that is the normal case. Driving times come from real road routes, so someone crossing the city on Constitución or Gonzalitos is not treated as though they were as close as the map suggests.
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