Politicians from Va por México describe the situation in the CDMX Metro as “alarming”

The parliamentary leaders of the Va por México coalition in the Chamber of Deputies demanded the presence of the Head of Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, before the legislators to clarify “the alarming situation of the Collective Transportation System-Metro so far in his management.”

The coordinators of the parliamentary groups of the parties of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), National Action (PAN) and Institutional Revolutionary (PRI) in the Chamber of Deputies, Luis E. Cházaro, Jorge Romero Herrera and Rubén Moreira, respectively, will request before the Political Coordination Board, the appearance of the Head of Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, according to a statement released by Va por México.

The coordinators of the Va Por México parliamentary coalition warned that recent accidents in the Mexico City Metro make it compulsory for the official to appear to explain what is happening in this infrastructure.

The politicians assured that the total neglect in the maintenance and activities of a system that is becoming a deadly transport for more than five million people who, daily, travel to their workplaces, schools, homes and others is evident. activities by said means; hence the urgent appearance of Sheinbaum Pardo.

Recent accidents in the Mexico City Metro

2020: the train crash in the Tacubaya metro, with the balance of one person dead and 41 injured

2021: the Metro Control Center (brain) fire in January 2021

2021: the collapse of the elevated bridge of Line 12 in May, with 26 people dead and more than 80 injured

2022: the collision between two Metro trains on Line 3 between the La Raza and Potrero stations, with one person dead and 41 injured (official report at 1:25 p.m. on Saturday, January 7)