Failure on the Mayan Train leaves passengers stranded heading to Cancun

Users of the Maya Trends they reported a new service failure of one of the president’s emblematic works Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The user who shared the video reported that They were stranded on Wednesday, March 3 in a station in the middle of nowhere (he did not specify which one) and that the National Guard, responsible for the Mayan Train, did not give them a solution.

In the video, with a duration of just one minute 26 seconds, you can see how several people surround those responsible for the Train who, without further explanation, informed them that after more than six hours of waiting, they would not be picked up by another Train. and that, because of this, their money would be refunded.

The annoyance of the passengers was due to the fact that, on the one hand, when they were heading to Cancún they were asked to get off at a station due to train failures. Once there, they were asked to wait six hours for the next one that would take them to their destination. However, after time, they were only told that another unit would not arrive and that they would be refunded their money.

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The problem, the dissidents relateis that at the station where they were left there was no taxi system or any transportation that would take them to Cancun, in addition to that, as has been published in a separate note, the refund of the ticket is made between 15 to 30 business days.

“This service has no guarantee, this service It doesn’t work at all, our tax money is going here. “This is useless, gentlemen, it is a pure lie,” said the person who spread the video.

Failures on the Mayan Train

Between the Mayan Train failures that have been documented thanks to social networks and user complaints are:

January 2. The Mayan Train left several tourists stranded at the Cancun station for changing the departure time from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. without prior notice.

January 5. Due to a failure, the service in Campeche was suspended due to a defect confirmed by the station chief.

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On January 20 and 21. The service of Maya Trends It was suspended for an entire weekend due to failures in the electrical system.

March 21st. Users who left Cancún bound for Palenque complained about the interruption of their trip due to a failure in the convoy brakes.

March 25th. A user shared his travel experience and system failures in the car’s air conditioning. Argenis Mena, reported on his point of view of this work. Read the note here

Derailment of the Mayan Train in Yucatán

On the same March 25, a convoy of Maya Trends derailed on the route that goes from Mérida to Cancún, so it stopped at the height of Tixkokob. After a week of the incident, on April 2, the head of the Ministry of National Defense, General Louis Crescent Sandovalattributed the derailment of a Mayan Train car to a manual failure in the track changing device, before it arrived at the station. Tixkokoband admitted that this mechanism must be automated, but it is not yet ready.

An expert railroad worker interviewed by the Diario doubts that there are people trained in the operation of this work and the necessary maintenance of the tracks, which could put passengers who use the service at risk.

READ ALSO: Faults in sleepers and rails exhibited after derailment of the Mayan Train

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2024-04-08 00:57:49

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