With a total journey of 58 kilometersdivided between the seven stations it covers; two terminals and five intermediate stations, the Train intercity The Insurgent will benefit more than 234 thousand people, shortening the travel time between the Mexico City y Toluca from more than one hour to 39 minutes.
Equipped with 30 trains with five cars each; manufactured by the Andean Development Corporation (CAF). On its first trip, it took approximately 50 minutes, but with a projection of 37 minutes in its daily use.
With an investment of at least 100 billion pesos and after several delays, the works on the Insurgente finally finished and, after 10 years, the Interurban train reached the Mexico Citysince the first stage was already operating in several municipalities of the Edomex from the September 15th from last year.
For the second stage, 29 more kilometers were launched this weekend with arrival at the station Santa Feleaving pending the last and third stage, at the stations of Vasco de Quiroga and Observatory, which are projected to begin operating next December.
They were also made available to the users In this second stage, 10 electric trains and 10 more are waiting for the last part to come into operation.
Prices for traveling on the Insurgente range from 15 to 100 pesos and will have a service schedule from 6:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. from Monday to Sunday at all its stations: Zinacantepec, Pino Suárez, Tecnológico (Airport), Lerma, Santa Fe, Vasco de Quiroga and Observatory.
One month before the end of the six-year term, the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador inaugurated the second stage of the Insurgente, this Saturday, in the company of the president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, the governor of the State of Mexico, Delfina Gómez, among other guests, they made the inaugural tour that departed from the workshops of Zinacantepec to Santa Fe.
The president-elect indicated that the project faced technical and administrative complications, but the president Lopez Obrador decided to follow it to its completion.
For his part, Mexico City’s head of government, Martí Batres, said that El Insurgente “is a train that had to overcome political resistance from those who opposed progress, but we can say that today it is a comfortable train.”
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