The Cuautitlán City Council announced that construction work on the Mexico-Querétaro Train will begin in the continuous tracks of the Buenavista-Cuautitlán Suburban Train. It also highlighted that a bus stop for intermediate-sized populations will be built in that municipality near the town of San Mateo Ixtacalco. Therefore, as part of the preparations, it is freeing up space on the outskirts of the new mass transit route to ensure mobility in the region, reported Mayor Juana Carrillo Luna.
“The rapid transit work is coming in April, and we’ve already been told it will start. It will even start in Cuautitlán, because it will use part of the Suburban Train tracks, because construction of the Mexico-Querétaro Train begins here, in our municipality,” Mayor Carrillo Luna announced in an interview.
The council member proposed that the Director General of Liaison of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications, and Transportation (SICT), Néstor Núñez López; and General Ricardo Vallejo, commander of the “Felipe Ángeles” Engineering Group, responsible for the railway project, are in contact with municipal authorities located along the 225-kilometer railway line.
“Today we know that the works will begin in April, but they haven’t told us about mitigation works or pedestrian and vehicular bridges,” commented Carrillo Luna, a Morena party member, who insisted that she is attentive to collateral projects for mass transportation, while her government is preparing to remove obstacles to guarantee mobility on roads surrounding the railway project. “For the military, we must have all the train space cleared from here (the Cuautitlán Suburban Train Station) to San Mateo Ixtacalco,” she commented.
Mobility, a Problem in Cuautitlán
The mayor stated that one of the issues worrying her government is mobility, as it is clear that with the new mode of transportation, the train crossings will be closed and fenced. Therefore, the Cuautitlán government is working on a mobility plan and clearing communication routes. For now, starting this week, the removal of informal commerce outside the Suburban Train began.
She explained that Cuautitlán is an important attraction for Logistics Centers or Distribution Centers (Cedis), but the road infrastructure has been overwhelmed to handle the daily traffic of more than 7,000 tractor-trailers, in addition to private and public transportation vehicles, which means “traffic chaos.”
Carrillo indicated that her government is working on mobility and is calling on business leaders. Local authorities are urging locals to invest in mitigation works, “because if the mobility system collapses here, those large investments are at risk because we have nowhere to cross,” she commented.
In the last five years, the arrival of high-impact regional distribution centers has increased in Cuautitlán. “Mercado Libre,” the largest logistics center in Latin America, receives one and a half million pieces of merchandise a day, the mayor commented. With more than 40 hectares of land, some measuring one million square meters, the distribution centers bring hundreds of cargo units into and out of the municipality, primarily affecting street furniture and damaging pavements.
Therefore, within the framework of the Mexico-Querétaro Train project, “I am seeking to convince the federal government to establish a road interchange in Parque San Mateo, Santa María Huecatitla, that will connect to Cuautitlán Izcalli via Santa Bárbara,” the mayor commented, noting that, like her, several mayors are waiting for meetings with federal authorities to learn more details about the initiative that will positively impact the northern region of the State of Mexico.
Source: jornada
