Four stations of Mexico City Metro’s Line 1 are now open after a year of renovations

Four stations connected Line 1 of the Mexico City Metro strategy that service fashionable neighborhoods of the superior specified arsenic Roma and Condesa reopened connected Wednesday, much than a twelvemonth aft they were closed for renovation.

Metro users tin present entree the pursuing stations:

• Cuauhtémoc (providing entree to the Roma Norte and Juárez neighborhoods)
• Insurgentes (Roma Norte and Juárez, including the Zona Rosa)
• Sevilla (Roma Norte and Juárez)
• Chapultepec (Condesa and Chapultepec Park)

The 4 stations closed successful November 2023 arsenic a institution commissioned by the metropolis authorities carried retired a large upgrade of Line 1 of the Mexico City Metro, the system’s oldest and busiest line.

The task arsenic a full — including upgrades to tracks, stations and communications systems — began successful July 2022, but inactive hasn’t been completed.

Three stations connected the 20-station enactment — Juanacatlán, Tacubaya and Observatorio — stay closed. They are scheduled to reopen aboriginal this year. The Mexico City-Toluca bid enactment volition terminate astatine Observatorio erstwhile it is complete.

As things stand, Line 1 — known arsenic la linea rosa oregon the pinkish enactment — is unfastened betwixt Pantitlán, a presumption successful eastbound Mexico City, and Chapultepec. New trains designed and built by the Chinese institution CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive are present moving connected the line.

Los trenes NM22 que circulan en #LaNuevaLínea1 están diseñados ergonómicamente para la población mexicana. Cuentan con asientos reservados para personas con movilidad reducida, y las cabinas de las y los conductores lad más amplias, lo que permite una mejor visión de la vía y el… pic.twitter.com/Zp5epYJcX4

— MetroCDMX (@MetroCDMX) April 24, 2025

A Mexican subsidiary of that institution won a 37-billion-peso (US $1.9 billion) declaration to transportation retired the Line 1 upgrade and different ongoing enactment implicit a play of 19 years.

‘It’s arsenic if a caller metro enactment was built’

President Claudia Sheinbaum and Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada attended a ceremonial astatine Chapultepec Station connected Wednesday to observe the reopening of the 4 modernized stations.

“It’s arsenic if a caller metro enactment was built,” said Sheinbaum, who noted that the Line 1 tunnel, done which trains run, was checked to guarantee that it is structurally sound. The enactment opened successful 1969, conscionable 2 years aft operation began.

Sheinbaum — politician of Mexico City erstwhile the upgrade of Line 1 began — noted that the full task was initially slated for completion successful conscionable 1 year.

However, she said the situation was bigger than primitively anticipated, and asserted that the completion of the task successful “less than 3 years is simply a satellite record.”

Metro users spoke glowingly astir the results successful a video posted to societal media by the Metro system.

The caller Balderas-Chapultepec conception of Line 1 is present unfastened to the public. (Galo Cañas/Cuartoscuro)

“The information is it turned retired precise well. [The station] is present a spot brighter,” 1 rider said.

In a station to societal media, Brugada described the Mexico City Metro arsenic “the bosom of our city.”

“We volition proceed moving for accessible and sustainable transport for the well-being of everyone,” the politician wrote.

With respect to the Cuauhtémoc-Chapultepec conception of Line 1, Brugada said that “all the systems were updated 100%: caller tracks, caller automatic steering, a caller electrical strategy and caller trains.”

“[Line 1 is] a wholly caller enactment that volition payment adjacent to 500,000 radical per day, with 17 stations already successful operation,” she said.

“… Thanks to the enactment of our beloved president @Claudiashein, contiguous we person a faster, safer and much modern line,” Brugada said. 

With reports from El Financiero and La Jornada