The federal government, in coordination with that of the City and State of Mexico, will allocate a million-dollar investment for the construction of a new transportation system for the eastern Valley of Mexico.
It is about 15,000 million pesos that will be allocated to the first metropolitan Trolleybus lines, which will connect Santa Marta, in Iztapalapa, with the Mexican municipality of Chalco, and the Tláhuac terminal of Metro Line 12, with Chalco.
In addition, the head of government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, reported this Thursday, after presenting the Center for Development and Technological Innovation of Azcapotzalco, the possibility that this last course could enter the mayor’s office of Milpa Alta is explored. The investment also includes the re-leveling of Line A and the purchase of more trains, with the aim of increasing commercial speed on this route and thereby reducing travel times on the eastern border between the City and the State of Mexico.
The line from Chalco to Santa Marta will connect with the elevated Trolleybus built by the capital’s government, which runs from Santa Marta to Constitución de 1917, and which is expected to be ready in the last quarter of the year. 18-meter articulated trolleybuses will circulate on that route, and the operation will be in a scheme similar to Metrobús: with established stations and programmed travel times. Both in Santa Marta and in Constitución of 1917, Line 2 of Cablebús also arrives, which crosses the Sierra de Santa Catarina, in Iztapalapa.
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Regarding the route from Chalco to Tláhuac, Sheinbaum Pardo commented that it will connect with Line 12 of the Metro and “will be in operation at the moment when Line 12 can enter, already, in operation as well.” As part of this project, “the possibility that it could go to Milpa Alta to be able to provide, for the first time, a mass public transport connectivity to Milpa Alta” is evaluated. to do a citizen consultation on the work.
In the investment of 15,000 million pesos, the president clarified, it is included “the arrangement of Line A. (Calzada Ignacio) Zaragoza has problems of differential subsidence, so Line A has problems of undulations related to subsidence of the ground. The project is already being carried out to be able to level the line and, at the same time, also to be able to acquire more trains –together with the trolleybuses– and to make Line A more viable ”.
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