Overview
- Mexico’s interior secretary said the Lechería–AIFA suburban rail could open the weekend of April 25–26 and stressed the date remains tentative until the president confirms it.
- Project managers report 92% overall progress, with only pedestrian bridges and automated signaling adjustments still to finish.
- Fare top-up machines and access turnstiles are already live, and trains are running test trips to validate the control and communications systems.
- The new spur covers 23.7 kilometers with six intermediate stations plus the airport terminal and will operate 10 coupled trains.
- Planners expect about 43 minutes from Buenavista to AIFA with 15-minute intervals and daily service from 5:00 to 00:30 using the city’s integrated fare card.