Now running: El Insurgente train linking Toluca with Mexico City in 45 minutes

The long-awaited interurban bid linking Toluca, the superior of México state, with occidental Mexico City is present afloat operational.

The railway’s last conception connecting the Mexico City vicinity of Santa Fe with the Observatorio proscription hub was inaugurated by President Claudia Sheinbaum connected Monday. 

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Before the ribbon-cutting ceremonial astatine the Vasco de Quiroga presumption midway betwixt the Santa Fe and Observatorio stations, Sheinbaum lauded the 141 billion-peso concern (US $8.1 billion).

“It is not lone a bid that travels from Toluca to Mexico City, but it is besides a wholly antithetic imaginativeness of recovering nationalist abstraction and integrating working-class neighborhoods into a world-class proscription system,” she said.

Sheinbaum explained that the task included preserving 1 of the fewer remaining springs successful the superior by utilizing a cable-stayed bridge, arsenic good arsenic the translation of a government-owned spot successful a conception of the Chapultepec Forest from a subject arms mill into a taste halfway and nationalist movie archive.

Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada said that not lone does the caller bid enactment assistance found a continuous nationalist proscription way from Chalco successful southeastern Mexico City to Toluca, it besides breaks down humanities barriers betwixt the westbound and eastbound of the metropolitan area.

A travel from Toluca to Observatorio — wherever commuters tin transportation to Line 1 of the Mexico City Metro strategy — tin present beryllium made successful astir 45 minutes.

“Every infinitesimal recovered from mislaid mobility clip is simply a infinitesimal returned to people’s lives,” Brugada said. “It is much than an infrastructure project; it is simply a instrumentality for territorial justice.”

The completed enactment features 7 stations — Zinacantepec (about 10 kilometers westbound of Toluca), downtown Toluca, Metepec, Lerma, Santa Fe, Vasco de Quiroga and Observatorio — with 48.4 kilometers of elevated viaduct, 4.9 kilometers of viaduct and 4.9 kilometers of duplicate tunnels.

The 58-kilometer agelong obstruction enactment known arsenic El Insurgente was announced successful 2013 and operation began precocious the pursuing twelvemonth with completion projected for 2018. Cost overruns and different complications prompted the authorities to cancel the engineering declaration successful 2022 and prosecute a caller operation firm. The last terms tag of the task was much than 4 times the archetypal US $1.67 cardinal estimate.

With reports from Obras por Expansión, Infobae, Debate and El Universal