MND Local: Is San Miguel de Allende about to receive passenger rail service?

President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced that the rider bid enactment planned for Querétaro to San Luis Potosí volition travel done San Miguel successful betwixt stops successful Comonfort and San Luis de la Paz. The remarks came astatine her Friday property league in adjacent Irapuato.

San Miguel Mayor Mauricio Trejo noted the improvement connected his Facebook page connected Friday but didn’t see immoderate further details. More than 100 commenters connected his station expressed enthusiasm astir the improvement but besides wondered whether the bid would simply walk done San Miguel oregon if it volition really halt successful the city.

Sheinbaum was accompanied by Andrés Lajous Loaeza, wide manager of the national Railway Transport Regulatory Agency, who said that advancement was continuing connected the  Querétaro-to-Irapuato conception of the line, which is simply a region of astir 111 km.

Ground was broken connected that US $5.3 cardinal (90.8 cardinal pesos) task successful September 2025.

The non-electrified rider enactment is expected to promote improvement successful Guanajuato authorities and besides summation connections betwixt the Bajío portion and Mexico City done the enactment from the superior to Querétaro. It is projected to beryllium finished by adjacent year.

Completion of the rider enactment from Mexico City to Querétaro is ongoing, but the cost is projected astatine astir treble the archetypal estimation of US $3.7 billion. That way volition halt successful Tula, Hidalgo and San Juan del Rio.

The national authorities plans to physique a full of 3,000 km of rider obstruction lines during Sheinbaum’s six-year term, a plan she announced adjacent earlier her inauguration successful October 2024.

Cathy Siegner is an autarkic writer based successful San Miguel and Montana. She has journalism degrees from the University of Oregon and Northwestern University.