More Mexicans are riding the rails as train ridership tops 55 million

Train ridership successful Mexico is up, pursuing the completion of 2 large caller bid routes and acknowledgment to the ongoing occurrence of Mexico City’s Suburban Train, according to authorities data. 

In 2025, 55.1 cardinal passengers traveled connected Mexico’s six progressive obstruction systems, representing a 6.9% summation compared to the erstwhile year. Mexico City’s Suburban Train, which links the bluish bounds of the metropolis with Cuautitlán successful México state, contributed 82% of this increase.

Mexico City’s Suburban Train, which is operated by Ferrocarriles Suburbanos, recorded rider numbers of 45.1 cardinal successful 2025, down 2.2% from the erstwhile year. 

The laminitis of the consulting steadfast Spyral, Alfredo Nolasco, blames the alteration connected a scope of factors, including the improvement of alternate transport options, the emergence successful the fig of bureau workers moving from location aft the COVID-19 pandemic, the increasing usage of motorcycles and the summation successful purchasing powerfulness among the little income brackets.

However, rider numbers are expected to summation with the upcoming inauguration of the airy obstruction transportation from México state’s Lechería presumption to the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) and the gradual adoption of the precocious inaugurated Interurban “Insurgente” Train linking eastbound México authorities with the Observatorio presumption of the Mexico City Metro. 

Now running: El Insurgente bid linking Toluca with Mexico City successful 45 minutes

After years of delays, the long-awaited bid became afloat operational successful February. In 2025, the then-operational conception of the train, which connected Zinacantepec, Toluca, Metepec, Lerma and Santa Fe, saw an 88.8% summation successful rider numbers, which totaled 8.4 cardinal astatine year’s end.  

The Maya Train, successful the Yucatán Peninsula, which became afloat operational successful December 2024, experienced akin occurrence past year, with rider numbers expanding by 91.9%, to 1.3 cardinal twelvemonth connected year. 

The ridership of the Suburban, Interurban and Maya Train lines contributed 99.5% of Mexico’s full obstruction rider numbers successful 2025.

This was followed by the Chepe Express tourer bid (connecting Sinaloa with Chihuahua via the celebrated Copper Canyon) with 179,000 passengers, the Interoceanic Corridor (traversing Veracruz and Oaxaca) with 69,800 passengers, and the Tijuana-Tecate tourer bid with 1,700. 

Sheinbaum’s large obstruction plans

President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced large plans for the enlargement of Mexico’s railways, having antecedently stated the ambitious extremity of gathering much than 3,000 kilometers of railway way for rider trains earlier her word ends successful 2030. 

Works commenced connected the Mexico City-Querétaro and Querétaro-Irapuato bid lines past year, which signifier portion of the caller Mexico City-Guadalajara-Nogales line. The authorities aims for the railway enactment to service 6 cardinal passengers each twelvemonth erstwhile completed. 

With reports from El Economista