5.6 million Mexicans expected to benefit from new CDMX-QRO passenger train line

Four months aft plans were presented to physique a Mexico City-Querétaro rider train line, the task appears to beryllium heading for completion up of schedule, but astatine astir treble the archetypal outgo estimate.  

Andrés Lajous, manager of Mexico’s Rail Transport Regulatory Agency (ARTF), connected Monday confirmed reports published past week that operation of the enactment would outgo 144 cardinal pesos (US $7 billion), considerably much than the 75 cardinal pesos ($3.7 billion) estimated erstwhile President Claudia Sheinbaum launched the task connected Oct. 13, 2024.  

Andrés Lajous, manager of Mexico’s Rail Transport Regulatory Agency (ARTF), confirmed connected Monday that operation of the enactment would outgo treble what it was estimated to cost. (SICT/X)

During Sheinbaum’s Monday property conference, Lajous and the Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation Ministry (SICT) offered a presumption study of the preliminary studies and ongoing method reviews. An update connected a related task — the Querétaro-to-Irapuato trunk enactment — was besides provided.

Construction is acceptable to get underway successful July, Lajous said, with a targeted completion day of December 2027. The scheduled motorboat of work successful aboriginal 2028 is simply a afloat twelvemonth up of the government’s pre-investment signifier estimate, which foresaw operational investigating successful precocious 2028 and work motorboat successful 1Q 2029.

Millions volition payment from bid connecting CDMX and QRO

The Sheinbaum medication has said the Mexico City-Querétaro bid — with stops successful Tula, Hidalgo, and San Juan del Río, Querétaro — volition heighten municipality and interurban mobility. The presumption successful Tula was not included successful the archetypal plan.

Lajous said much than 30,000 radical from 22 municipalities who commute regular betwixt Mexico City and Querétaro volition payment instantly from the caller bid line, with a full colonisation of 5.6 cardinal besides expected to benefit, straight oregon indirectly.

Sheinbaum to commencement word with 3 rider bid projects; railway assemblage responds

Two dedicated rider lines utilizing the existing close of mode volition widen for 225 kilometers (140 miles) with trains capable to scope speeds of 200 km/h (124 mph).

“The trains volition supply accelerated and businesslike work with [end-to-end] question clip of 1 hr and 50 minutes,” Lajous said.

The Mexican subject and its Felipe Ángeles Engineer Corps volition build, repair oregon lengthen 49 bridges, six tunnels, 14 viaducts and 2 bypasses, with orders to minimize disruptions to existing infrastructure. Two railway interchanges volition besides beryllium designed, according to a SICT papers cited by Forbes México.

Another 3 cardinal radical volition payment from the projected 110-kilometer Querétaro-to-Irapuato enactment which volition nexus Querétaro to respective large cities successful the authorities of Guanajuato. The preliminary estimation for the outgo of this 2nd enactment is 73 cardinal pesos ($3.5 billion).

Additionally, the SICT said the 2 projects volition make 99,000 imperishable jobs and indirectly lend to the instauration of a further 170,000 positions.

The SICT besides shared the project’s biology advantages.

“Although the [train] volition not beryllium wholly electric, its hybrid exertion [using diesel-electric substance pumps] volition let greater substance ratio and a important simplification successful greenhouse state emissions,” the SICT papers said, particularly arsenic the convenience of the bid volition service to marque it an alternate to vehicular traffic. 

Additionally, the bid stations volition link straight to nationalist proscription services successful each city.

With reports from Infobae, Forbes México and Excelsior