Government breaks ground on new rail line from Querétaro to Irapuato

Construction connected the Querétaro-Irapuato trunk enactment formally began connected Thursday, with officials waving starter’s flags astatine a ceremonial successful Apaseo el Grande, Guanajuato.

President Claudia Sheinbaum joined the dignitaries via video nexus from the National Palace, noting that “passenger bid work is being revived and reborn” successful Mexico.

Among those contiguous astatine the groundbreaking ceremonial were Transportation Minister Jesús Antonio Esteva, Guanajuato Governor Libia García Muñoz Ledo, Querétaro Governor Mauricio Kuri González and Andrés Lajous, manager of Mexico’s Rail Transport Regulatory Agency. (SICT/X)

The US $5.3 cardinal task volition physique a 108.2-km (67.2-mile) way betwixt Querétaro and different cities located successful the Bajío region, which boasts thriving manufacturing, agribusiness and exertion sectors. 

The Querétaro-Irapuato enactment is portion of Sheinbaum’s ambitious task that would physique 3,000 km of way during her six-year term. This conception is not lone designed to boost connectivity and improvement successful the Bajío, but volition yet nexus the portion to Guadalajara and occidental Mexico.

The enactment volition besides fortify the Bajío’s transportation with the nation’s superior arsenic it extends from the Mexico City-Querétaro line, which is nearing completion. 

 Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation Minister Jesús Antonio Esteva was joined connected tract successful Apaseo el Grande by Guanajuato Governor Libia García Muñoz Ledo, Querétaro Governor Mauricio Kuri González and Andrés Lajous, manager of Mexico’s Rail Transport Regulatory Agency (ARTF).

Lajous said the caller enactment volition diagnostic a non-electrified twin-track conception designed to enactment a maximum velocity of 200 km/hr (124 mph). It volition besides diagnostic 2 viaducts allowing for enactment with manufacture and obstruction freight services, arsenic good arsenic 9 conveyance overpasses.

The obstruction line’s six stations volition beryllium located successful Querétaro, Apaseo el Grande, Celaya, Villagrán/Cortázar, Salamanca and Irapuato, the second 5 each being successful the authorities of Guanajuato.

The authorities estimates the task volition make 1,518 nonstop jobs and 8,255 indirect jobs. 

Lajous said 2 cardinal radical volition payment from the operation of this trunk line. “We estimation a request of astir 30,000 radical per time betwixt the Apaseo El Grande stations and Mexico City.”

Both governors praised the practice betwixt their governments and the national government, expressing certainty that the caller enactment volition heighten mobility successful their states.

“The Querétaro-Mexico City bid has been a imagination of Queretanos for much than 46 years, and this caller connectivity with the westbound … volition lend to the competitiveness of my state,” Kuri said.

“Guanajuato has a agelong railway contented dating to 1877, and we cognize what trains bring to our communities and municipalities: development, progress, well-being, and, supra all, transportation betwixt families that fills america with emotion,” García said.

With reports from La Jornada, Informador and Chilango