As of August 31, the train The Insurgent starts trips of Santa Fe a Tolucasince to date it only operates from Zinacantepec a Lerma, in the State of Mexico.
This was announced by Jorge Ñuño Lara, head of the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT) in The Morning of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“We still needed to finish the civil work from Lerma to Santa Fe station, which is the Stage 2 (…) the rolling stock consists of these 10 trains, plus 10 that are already ready to go into operation (…) the safety systems have already been tested to put them into operation on August 31,” he said.
Nuño Lara indicated that the 48-kilometer work was divided into three sections: the first of 20 kilometers, the second of 29 kilometers and the third, of 9 kilometers. Of that total, 42 were in charge of Communications and Transportation, and the rest, managed by the Mexico City Government.
The federal official reported that the transfer time between Zinacantepec to Santa Fe will be 39 minutes, and the system has the capacity to transport 235 thousand passengers per day.
For its part, Jesus Antonio Esteva Medina, Secretary of Public Works and Services of Mexico City and the next head of SICT, indicated that with regard to the capital section, physical progress is already 94% and that the trains that will arrive in Santa Fe are already being tested.
At the same time, Esteva Medina indicated that for the transfer of users from the Santa Fe station to the west, south and center of the capital there will be service from the Passenger Transport Network (RTP) with 65 units and 15 for Concessioned Transport.
On the other hand, Jorge Mendoza Sánchez, general director of the National Bank of Public Works and Services (Banobras) reported that, with the opening of the fifth E stationThe Insurgentthe travel time from Mexico City to Toluca will be 120 kilometers per hour.
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2024-08-26 17:42:19