Overview
- The city opened the Jardín Flotante Tlallipan on Sunday, a 1.5–1.8 kilometer elevated pedestrian and bicycle corridor built above Calzada de Tlalpan linking Pino Suárez and Chabacano stations.
- Officials say the corridor includes about 6,200–6,000 square meters of planted areas, 64 rest modules, nine illuminated fountains, a monumental screen, surveillance systems and services such as childcare, mental-health support, community kitchens and laundries, and it will operate from 05:00 to midnight.
- Within 24–48 hours of the inauguration multiple outlets and opposition figures reported unfinished stretches with exposed metal, construction barriers, workers on site and early water pooling after rains, and the city announced extra drainage work including added downspouts and channeling.
- Opposition leaders have demanded audits of the roughly 1.9 billion peso project, pointed to Grupo Idinsa as a principal contractor with prior public contracts, and called for full publication of contracts and supervision reports.
- The garden is one element of a wider set of World Cup–linked works that the city says include a Line 2 Metro modernization funded with about 1,500 million pesos in federal funds plus roughly 700 million from the Metro, and the dispute over completion, safety and spending could affect operations and transparency reviews in the coming days.