The commitment to mobility
The Metro is one of the most used transport in Mexico City, but the one that also needs more resource injection for its maintenance. In this year, it was placed as the second expenditure priority with 23,000 million pesos, An increase of 11.9% compared to the previous year, after the security item.
Metro line 3 is prepared for its first deep renewal in decades. In January 2025, basic engineering was tendered and the works will be extended until December of this year, but it will be until the end of 2026 when they start the major works.
For Víctor Alvarado, specialist in mobility, transport and public policies, a realistic measure of a bugada was to choose for his intervention only to Line 3 and Metro Line Athe latter which will receive resources from the federal government, according to President Sheinbaum herself. However, he considers, the problems that the subway drag are not solved with an increase to their budget in a single year.
“To solve the problems that have been suffering from years, it is not just an infrastructure issue, they are operational, maintenance, administrative issues that range from the official who arrives every sexennium to unionized persons,” he says.
Bet on cycle paths and bikes
The Cycling Plan of the capital government contemplates 300 kilometers of new cyclevias and the renewal of 553 kilometers existing. Its most important project is the Croaket Gran Tenochtitlán in Tlalpan of 34 kilometers, which will connect with five routes. Although a cycle from Centro Scop was also announced to Ciudad University, this project has not shown advances.
The cycling strategy has been complemented with road safety infrastructure. In the San Rafael neighborhood, 10 intersections and 1.8 kilometers were intervened with expansion of sidewalks, ramps, bollards and a 900 meter cyclocarril.
In addition, the Ecobici system reached record figures: more than 9,300 bicycles and 689 cycle distributed in a 75 km2 polygon, with an average of 63,000 daily trips and more than one million minutes of pedaling per day. According to Semovi, emission savings exceeds 885 tons of CO2 in 2025.
For the person in charge of the Paris Cyclist program, Charlotte Guth, the progress in the Mexican capital points in the right direction: “If there are no safe cyclevías, people are not encouraged to use them. It is not enough to paint lanes; you have to design infrastructure that really protects the cyclist,” he said in an interview, remembering that even Paris had to learn from the Netherlands and Denmark on how to build reliable networks.
CableBuses and Tolebuses: Investment towards the periphery
The local government maintains as a building Five new cablebus lines in the six -year period. Three of them are already in the planning phase: Line 4, which will go from the Pedregal de San Nicolás to the University City, with eight stations; Line 6, from Milpa Alta to Metro Tláhuac, with seven stations, and another in Magdalena Contreras towards Álvaro Obregón, which will have eight stations, but still has no start date.
By electric transport, Brugada announced the construction of line 13 of the trolebús, which will travel almost 11 kilometers between Metro Universidad and Huipulco, passing through Santa Úrsula and the Azteca stadium.
To this is added the purchase of 17 new light trains for Metro line A and the modernization of electrical substations. With these investments, the capital administration has first transferred the bulk of public transport to the periphery, historically unattended areas where there were no metrobus or other mass infrastructure.
Víctor Alvarado considers that the investment in the expansion of cablebus lines is one of the most important bets of Brugada management.
“It is a democratization of public transport services because on the periphery they have a concessioned transport system (such as microbuses, combis and trucks) but somehow they know that it is not professionalized and that it does not have established stops,” he says.
The mobility expert considers precisely that the professionalization and restructuring of concessioned transport in Mexico City is a slope of the head of government since they are currently still circulating between 4,500 and 4,800 microbuses in the capital.
