Mexico City. In Senate committees, the constitutional reform was advanced so that the Mexican State could regain the right to use railways to provide passenger transportation service, when it was unanimously approved in committees.
The ruling, endorsed by all political forces, seeks to regain state control over the railways, specifically for the provision of passenger service, something that had been neglected since the privatization of the sector in the 1990s.
For this purpose, it is specified that the Federal Executive may grant assignments to public companies or concessions to individuals.
Morena senator Laura Estrada Mauro pointed out that with this proposal national autonomy is restored and the privatization promoted during Ernesto Zedillo‘s government is reversed, since rail transportation is returned to the people.
From the PAN, Mayuli Latifa Martínez Simón considered that the reform promotes mobility and contributes to the development of the various regions, but the new government must conduct itself with legality and transparency in the construction of major railway projects.
Carolina Viggiano Austria said that the PRI Parliamentary Group supports the constitutional reform, however it will monitor the impacts, technical and financial viability of future railway projects, so that “what happened with the Mayan Train does not happen”, which had no transparency , increased its costs and has not achieved its profitability goals.
Alejandro González Yáñez, of the PT, explained that after the historical regression that the railway system faced during the six-year term of Ernesto Zedillo, the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador promoted the development of the south-southeast of the country with the Mayan Train, but with the administration of Claudia Sheinbaum “we are at the threshold of making Mexico an economic power.”
Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas, from Movimiento Ciudadano, highlighted that our country’s railway infrastructure, with more than 27 thousand kilometers of tracks, represents great potential to decongest the roads, offer a safe and sustainable means of transportation, but, above all, to connect regions of the country that have been historically marginalized.
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