AMLO assumes that the train ride from CDMX to Felipe Ángeles Airport will be 45 minutes

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador supervised this Sunday the works for mobility to the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), which is planned to open on March 21, 2022.

In a short video broadcast on his social networks, the federal president explained that to reach the AIFA through various roads that are being built, such as the Lechería route to travel by Suburban Train from the station Buenavista in Mexico City, whose route would be estimated in 45 minutes.

“The Mexico-Pachuca highway is being expanded to 8 lanes. Other roads are being built and the Lechería road to the Felipe Ángeles airport to get by train from the city center, Buenavista station, to the new airport in 45 minutes,” he wrote the chief executive on his Twitter account.

During the tour, López Obrador had the company of his wife Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller; the Head of Government, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo; the Governor of the State of Mexico, Alfredo del Mazo Maza; the secretaries of National Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval González and of Communications and Transport, Jorge Arganis Díaz Leal, as well as General Gustavo Ricardo Vallejo Suárez, responsible for the work.

The stretch of Suburban train that will connect with him Felipe Angeles International Airport will have six stations from Dairy, with stops in Cueyamil, Los Agaves, Nextlalpan and Jaltocan, in the State of Mexico.

It is estimated that the expansion will cost around 12,500 million pesos and that it will be completed in August 2023, 17 months after the commercial operations of the air terminal are inaugurated.

“It will be possible to arrive by highways, it will be possible to arrive by modern train from Buenavista to here and the freight train will be preserved,” López Obrador commented in the short video.

At the beginning of 2021, the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT) began with the process of building the main access to the AIFA, called toll-free road Tonanitla, which will have eight lanes and an extension of 10.5 km, in addition to being connected from the México-Pachuca highway.

The other two are highways that will connect with cargo and passenger areas are: the expansion of the México-Pachuca and a connection of the Circuito Exterior Mexiquense.

The Felipe Angeles International Airport will begin operations on March 21, 2022 with domestic flights of low-cost airlines (Volaris and VivaAerobus) that are currently leading the recovery of the national industry after the harsh impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

At the end of November, the work had a physical progress of 78.9% and about 70% of the 75,000 million pesos that exist with a maximum and immovable budget had been exercised.

With information from Alejandro de la Rosa.

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