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Defense ministry to help build US$6.7bn Maya train

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Defense ministry to help build US$6.7bn Maya train

The defense ministry (Sedena) will build two of the seven stretches of the US$6.7bn Maya train after it finishes works on the 79bn-peso (US$3.9bn) Felipe Ángeles international airport (AIFA) in Mexico state.

The airport at Santa Lucía airbase, replacing the canceled Texcoco lake airport (NAIM), is expected to be completed in March 2022.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Wednesday Sedena is “going to help us build two large sections of the Maya train so that in [2023] we can have 1,500km of the [project]. But let's not talk about that now, let's finish the airport first.” 

Works at Santa Lucía have advanced 7.37% since they restarted in October. Ricardo Vallejo, the civil engineer in charge, said at the conference this is twice as fast as the progress made at Texcoco.

The government has spent 2.8bn pesos on AIFA so far.

Works for platforms, runways and taxiways progress faster than expected, Vallejo said, while construction of a 220,000m2 terminal and a control tower proceeds as planned.

Sedena also plans a “parking lot for 5,000 vehicles…which can even have the foundation for the structure of the interurban train,” he said.

On March 19 and 20, officials will provide more details about transport facilities for the three-airport system that will relief operations at Benito Juárez international airport in Mexico City, AMLO said.

Photo credit: Sedena

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