This Wednesday, at the National Palace, the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaumannounced a public investment of 150 billion pesos in 2025 to begin the construction of 3 thousand kilometers of passenger trains in his mandate after a new constitutional reform.
The President celebrated the unanimous approval yesterday Tuesday in the Chamber of Deputies of an initiative that former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024) sent last February so that the State can develop railways of passengers on railways even if they are concessioned to private freight transport companies.
“This is now in the Constitution, that the State can use the current roads that are concessioned for the transportation of passengers,” He spoke in today’s “La Mañanera del Pueblo” about the reform, which the Senate must still endorse.
Claudia Sheinbaum argued that in the contracts that previous governments made with private companies for the concession of railways there was already a clause that specified that, in the case of passengers, if the private sector did not develop it, the State could take advantage of it and there could be public companies.
The President stated that “that will allow the possibility of using passenger transport, or as was done with the Mayan Train”with more than 1,500 kilometers in the Mexican southeast under the government of López Obrador, “make new tracks for a new train.”
“This is very important because, at the same time that the concession for rail freight transport is maintained, it is already openly and clearly allowed in the Constitution that passenger trains can operate on those same tracks,” he concluded at the conference. press before the media.
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Today’s Sheinbaum’s “La Mañanera” Wednesday, October 9, 2024
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