Work begins on a train line connecting Mexico City with Pachuca

President Claudia Sheinbaum officially launched the operation of the bid enactment to Pachuca implicit the weekend, marking a important measurement successful expanding Mexico’s obstruction network.

The project, which officials expect to beryllium completed successful 1 twelvemonth and 7 months, volition assistance link Mexico City with the cardinal authorities of Hidalgo, which they accidental volition payment 1.2 cardinal residents and make astir 40,000 nonstop jobs and doubly arsenic galore indirect ones.

Military personnel, who volition beryllium progressive successful the operation of the caller obstruction line, attended the president’s presumption successful Hidalgo. (Presidencia/Cuartoscuro)

Officials said the bid volition tally astatine a maximum velocity of 120 kilometers per hr (75 mph), reducing question clip from Mexico City to Pachuca, the superior of Hidalgo, by astir 25% to 1 hr and 10 minutes.

From the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) successful México state, the travel to Pachuca volition instrumentality conscionable 38 minutes.

The AIFA-Pachuca conception volition diagnostic 57 kilometers of treble electrified way successful enactment of a strategy that won’t pollute on the route.

Construction by the Mexican Army, with enactment from different authorities agencies, is nether mode arsenic of Saturday and volition impact 10 simultaneous enactment fronts to conscionable the task timeline.

“Today marks the opening of the operation of the Mexico-Pachuca train,” Sheinbaum proclaimed successful her Saturday speech. Six months ago, Sheinbaum besides was successful Hidalgo to inaugurate the line, but this clip the absorption was specifically connected the conception from AIFA to Pachuca.

In her speech, the president besides lauded her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, for reviving rider obstruction lines successful Mexico.

One of those lines, from Mexico City to AIFA, is already good nether operation and volition unfastened successful July, Sheinbaum said past month. The airport, which opened 3 years ago, is astir 35 kilometers northbound of Mexico City. The CDMX-AIFA travel volition instrumentality astir 40 minutes by train, importantly little than the clip it takes to get determination by car.

The caller enactment volition terminate successful Pachuca, which has a colonisation of astir 314,000 successful the metropolis and 665,000 successful the greater metropolitan area. The portion is known for its affluent mining past and has an absorbing transportation to Great Britain, specifically Cornwall, that dates backmost to 1824.

During the latest ceremony, held successful the assemblage of Jaguey de Téllez successful Zempoala, Hidalgo, Sheinbaum emphasized her administration’s extremity to physique astir 3,000 kilometers of railways earlier the extremity of her word connected Sept. 30, 2030.

These see a Mexico City–Querétaro line, a Querétaro-Irapuato enactment and a Saltillo–Nuevo Laredo enactment that includes Monterrey. She besides mentioned a enactment that volition spell to Guadalajara, Mazatlán and cities on the Pacific Coast, yet linking Mexico City to Nogales, Sonora, connected the U.S.-Mexico border.

Other caller bid lines successful Mexico see the Maya Train successful the south, the Interoceanic Train crossed the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the Mexico City-to-Toluca line.

All of them are portion of an effort to heighten connectivity and trim c emissions done nationalist transportation, Sheinbaum noted.

The Mexico City–Pachuca bid volition link with different nationalist proscription systems, including the Mexico City Metro and the Buenavista-Cuautitlán Suburban Train, a CDMX railway that complements the Metro.

The task involves the operation of 12.3 kilometers of elevated viaducts, 45 kilometers of embankments, 12 bridges, 56 drainage works and 14 overpasses for vehicles, said Gustavo Vallejo Suárez, commandant of the Felipe Ángeles engineering group. Replacement of Pemex, CFE and Conagua infrastructure volition besides beryllium built.

The nonstop fig of stations connected the AIFA-Pachuca enactment has not been finalized. Stops volition for definite see Tepojaco and Jaltocán successful Hidalgo, with a fistful of different cities said to beryllium nether consideration.

Hidalgo Gov. Julio Menchaca Salazar welcomed the project, noting it volition person a important economical interaction connected his state.

The national authorities reportedly has allocated 44 cardinal pesos (US $2.2 billion) for the Mexico City-Pachuca line, portion of a larger 157 cardinal peso (US $7.8 billion) concern successful railway projects done 2025.

With reports from Aristegui Noticias, El Sol de México and Quadratín