The Mexico-Toluca Interurban Train suffers another accident. A segment launcher collapsed in the Tacubaya Dam area, in Mexico City. The incident occurred around 3 in the morning at the Álvaro Obregón mayor’s office. The device is 200 meters long and weighs 800 tons. There are no injuries.
“The General Directorate of Transport Works informs that, during the maneuver of moving the company’s segment launcher Rizanni that works in the works of the Interurban Train, in the Tacubaya Dam work front, a failure occurred and the launcher was
moved towards the floor. There is no injured person,” said the Ministry of Works and Services.
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The Secretariat of Works and Services of Mexico City has not released the quantification of the material damage. This is the fifth incident reported at the construction site so far this year.
Just in January, a concrete segment that was being transported for the construction of the Mexico-Toluca Interurban Train fell from the top of the work. The impact destroyed two vehicles that were parked. The event took place at the Álvaro Obregón Mayor’s Office, Mexico City, during the followingnoon of January 16. According to reports from Civil Protection and Firefighters, there were no fatalities or injuries.
Another accident occurred in February, when one of the workers died. Another employee has been injured and has already been taken to a hospital. The two men fell from a platform located between 10 and 15 meters high at the Vasco de Quiroga station, while welding. When the paramedics from the Medical Emergency Rescue Squad arrived at the scene, in the Alvaró Obregón mayor’s office, they found one of the workers, 35 years old, already dead. The other, 28 years old, had serious head injuries.
The Mexico-Toluca Interurban Train, a project that does not end
The Mexico-Toluca Interurban Train, a project of the PRI Administration of Enrique Peña Nieto, has had severe delays and its cost tripled, going from 38,608 million pesos planned in 2013, to more than 105,000 million pesos, according to the Ministry of Finance. The project, which connects the capital of the State of Mexico with the west of Mexico City, began operations on September 15, almost a decade following the start of its construction.
This segment, which covers four stations, extends from Zinacantepec to Lerma, all located in the State of Mexico. Last February, tests began on the section that connects the State of Mexico with Santa Fe, although the works continue until the Observatorio metro station.
