New rail lines will connect central Mexico to the Pacific and points north

The Mexican authorities has launched the 2nd operation signifier of its ambitious rider obstruction program, a signifier that volition link cardinal Mexico via high-speed trains to Saltillo to the northbound and to the Pacific seashore to the west, arsenic good arsenic beforehand connections betwixt El Bajío cities specified arsenic Querétaro, San Luis Potosi and San Miguel de Allende. 

Speaking astatine the 25th National Meeting connected Highway Engineering successful Morelia, Michoacán, Efraín Deschamps Gutiérrez de Velasco, caput of works astatine the Agency for Trains and Integrated Public Transportation (Attrapi), explained that the engineering and request studies indispensable for the adjacent signifier person been completed.

“We privation to consolidate a modern obstruction system,” Deschamps said.

The 2nd signifier includes enactment connected the Irapuato-León and León-Guadalajara sections, which volition beryllium built by the Felipe Ángeles Engineering Group – the aforesaid radical liable for the Felipe Ángeles International Airport adjacent Mexico City.

Attrapi has besides launched the planetary tender process needed to inject cost-saving contention into the enactment of a contractor for the archetypal conception of the Querétaro-San Luis Potosí route, which includes the 68-kilometer agelong betwixt Querétaro and San Miguel de Allende. 

Construction for this conception is expected to statesman connected Sept. 24, according to concern quality level Bnamericas. 

Meanwhile, bidding for the northbound San Luis Potosí-Saltillo conception volition instrumentality spot successful stages betwixt June and September, portion the Mazatlán-Los Mochis conception remains successful the pre-investment survey signifier with nary authorized commencement day for construction.

Finally, the Querétaro-San Luis Potosí way is portion of the eventual Mexico City-Nuevo Laredo corridor planned for completion successful aboriginal phases.

A 3rd signifier volition grow high-speed obstruction work on 1,100 kilometers of the Pacific corridor, with routes linking Guadalajara, Tepic, Mazatlán, Los Mochis, Guaymas and Hermosillo. Plans besides see a imaginable fourth-phase task extending this occidental web northbound to Nogales connected the United States border.

According to Attrapi, the caller obstruction lines are expected to run astatine speeds of betwixt 160 and 200 kilometers per hr and volition beryllium dedicated exclusively to rider service, with nary level crossings oregon enactment with freight trains. 

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