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Local media reported that works on Cablebús line No. 3 started without required municipal approval and the administration opted for an unusual design. Mexico City is reportedly building the Cablebús line No. 3 without following required procedures and transparency, costing US$14. The public works and services ministry, which oversees construction of the cable car, started construction in April without asking Miguel Hidalgo municipality for approval so the real estate heritage committee could label the infrastructure as city property. The ministry only received approval on September 29, and the municipality issued a negative opinion considering damage to Chapultepec park. The line, which runs through a municipality-managed graveyard, was built in an unusual way that requires special features like steel reinforcement. The 5.42km cable car will serve six stations and connect Santa Fe neighborhood and Constituyentes subway station in Miguel Hidego municipality.
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Mexico City is building the 2.6bn-peso (US$142mn) Cablebús line No. 3 without following the required procedures and transparency, local media reported.
According to a report from Latinus news outlet, the city’s public works and services ministry, which oversees construction of the cable car, started works in April without asking Miguel Hidalgo municipality for approval as required so the real estate heritage committee can label the infrastructure city property.
The ministry asked for approval only on September 29, and the municipality issued a negative opinion considering damage to Chapultepec park.
“They want to regularize, or finish, the administrative paperwork that they should have followed before the works. We will not be complicit in finishing the integration of a project file if the works are already being executed,” Miguel Hidalgo mayor Mauricio Tabe told Latinus.
Also, the line runs by a municipality-managed graveyard but the city administration allegedly tried to avoid more paperwork and property invasion by building seven of its columns in an unusual way, the report said.
The base of those columns has been split, which, according to a soil mechanics expert consulted by Latinus, is unusual since it requires special features like steel reinforcement for the bases.
Line No. 3 is also part of the Chapultepec: Naturaleza y Cultura megaproject, as it will allow access to cultural spaces that are built along the fourth section of Chapultepec park.
According to data published by the local administration, the 5.42km cable car will serve six stations and connect Santa Fe neighborhood and Constituyentes subway station in Miguel Hidalgo municipality. It will have the capacity to transport 36,000 passengers per day.
Mexico City has not revealed more details related to the construction or the project.
Broadcaster 88.9 Noticias quoted mobility minister Andrés Lajous as saying that construction of the line is 76% complete. Works are expected to conclude in December and the start of operations has been scheduled for the first half 2024.