This week, President Claudia Sheinbaum launched the construction of the Mexico City-Querétaro train line, marking the first phase of a project that will eventually extend passenger rail service to Guadalajara and two U.S. border locations: Nogales and Nuevo Laredo.
Like the major infrastructure projects initiated by Sheinbaum’s predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador—including the Mayan Train and Felipe Ángeles International Airport—Mexico’s Ministry of Defense will oversee both the construction and future administration of the project.
The 225-kilometer line will utilize a fleet of trains capable of reaching speeds of up to 160 kilometers per hour and carrying 450 passengers. The route will make two stops on its one-hour-and-40-minute journey from Mexico City to Querétaro, at Buenavista and San Juan del Río. Along the way, the line will cross over or pass under 77 bridges and speed through 12 tunnels. Several new sections of track will be installed, making the journey 35 kilometers shorter than the existing line used by freight trains between the two cities.
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