Sheinbaum inaugurates work on CDMX-Querétaro train

President Claudia Sheinbaum connected Sunday formally inaugurated the Mexico City-Querétaro bid project, a 226-km-long way connecting Mexico’s superior with a metropolis and authorities that person experienced dynamic economical maturation successful caller years.

At a ceremonial 30 kilometers extracurricular Querétaro city, Sheinbaum said operation volition outgo an estimated 167 cardinal pesos (US $8.5 billion).

Upon announcing the task successful October, authorities had estimated a outgo of 75 cardinal pesos (US $3.75 billion). Cost estimates rose, task engineers said, aft determining it volition beryllium indispensable to physique six tunnels, 14 elevated aqueducts, 28 underpasses and 52 overpasses.

The Defense Ministry is charged with completing the task successful two-and-a-half years.

“My committedness is to implicit the way earlier [Governor Mauricio Kuri’s] word ends,” Sheinbaum said. Kuri, a subordinate of the absorption National Action Party, volition beryllium successful bureau until Sept. 30, 2027.

Sheinbaum expressed assurance successful the military’s quality to conscionable the deadline, saying “there’s cipher much capable.” She besides emphasized that utilizing the subject volition support the bid successful nationalist hands.

The Defense Ministry has been placed successful complaint of gathering the caller bid route. (Mauricio Kuri/X)

General and service technologist Gustavo Ricardo Vallejo, who oversaw operation of the Felipe Ángeles International Airport, said his men volition beryllium moving 24-7.

“It is successful our champion involvement to decorativeness the task connected time, efficiently and flawlessly,” Vallejo said.

The projected timeline is assisted by the information that the way volition mostly trust connected existing freight bid tracks. Military engineers volition absorption connected smoothing retired curves and addressing vertical divergences, allowing the bid to scope speeds of 160-200 km/h.

During remarks astatine the ceremony, Governor Kuri thanked Sheinbaum, recalling that a Mexico City-Querétaro bid had been nether information by respective erstwhile administrations, nary of whom had moved beyond vague proposals.

In a societal media post, Kuri called the task “a reflection of the shared imaginativeness and committedness to the improvement of our authorities and our country, boosting communications, investment, and employment.”

Marco del Prete, Querétaro’s curate of societal development, said the bid volition beryllium an motor of maturation for thousands of families. In a societal media station of his own, del Prete besides said the way volition person stations successful Mexico City; Huehuetoca, México state; Tula, Hidalgo; San Juan del Río, Querétaro; and 2 stations successful Querétaro city.

Hoy inicia una obra histórica: el tren México-Querétaro, un proyecto que conectará regiones, impulsará la movilidad eficiente y generará más de 600 mil empleos directos e indirectos. Con estaciones en Huehuetoca, Tula, San Juan del Río y Querétaro. Este tren será un centrifugal de… pic.twitter.com/B59FKpg6uq

— Marco Del Prete (@mdelprete) April 28, 2025

“[This] historical task … volition link regions, boost businesslike mobility, and make much than 600,000 nonstop and indirect jobs,” del Prete wrote.

Sheinbaum announced that the terminal successful Querétaro metropolis volition beryllium called “La Corregidora,” an homage to Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, a heroine of the Mexican independency movement.

The president besides reiterated her committedness to physique much than 3,000 kilometers of railway way for rider trains.

As portion of the extremity to widen rider bid routes to the northbound of the country, the Querétaro presumption volition yet nexus to the borderline metropolis of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, successful the northeast, and link to the northwestern borderline metropolis of Nogales, Sonora.

“Querétaro volition go a railroad hub,” Sheinbaum said. “Trains connecting to the Pacific and Gulf coasts volition depart from here.”

Sunday’s ceremonial occurred conscionable 5 weeks aft Sheinbaum inaugurated the Mexico City-Pachuca bid project.

With reports from El Economista, La Jornada and Eje Central