Emir Olivares and Alonso Urrutia
The newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, p. 6
I am not in a hurry to be inaugurating
works, responded President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to the positions of some residents of the state of Mexico, who have expressed their rejection of the passage of the Interurban Train that will connect Mexico City with the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA).
He stressed that if the claims are fair, they will be addressed, but he will not give in to blackmail or to people who want to take advantage of the need to finish this means of transport to make money.
“I want us to finish it before our government ends, but we are not going to be subjected to blackmail either. If they do not want the work to be finished because they are trying to get something that is not fair, then we will leave it as a task for them, I ask the next president (Claudia Sheinbaum). I am not in a hurry to be inaugurating. ‘No one is obliged to do the impossible,’ said President (Benito) Juárez,” the president stressed.
He said that he has information that, even though all the mitigation works have been done, there are still some complaints from a group, and in some cases they are not right
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One of the complaints, he mentioned, is that some people have opposed the construction of a railway confinement, and want the track to remain only on the road.
That is not possible, it is very risky. And an overpass was built, only 200 meters away and they do not want to use it, it is for vehicles, not pedestrians. There must be understanding that we cannot build one at each intersection, it would be very expensive, it is a matter of going around the corner.
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He made it clear that the work will not only be for moving from the Buenavista station in Mexico City to the AIFA, but will also benefit the mobility of the residents of the state of Mexico.
They will be in Buenavista in less than an hour, because they are stations, it is like a Metro, so it will help them a lot. The area is full of inhabitants who need this transport and it will help them, it is a public work.
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