Mexico signs agreement to improve urban areas around passenger train stations

Mexican federal and state authorities have signed a collaboration agreement to enhance the urban surroundings of four passenger train stations in the State of Mexico. The initiative focuses on the Mexico-Pachuca "Felipe Ángeles" and Mexico-Querétaro lines, aiming to establish secure, accessible, and sustainable environments.

The agreement specifically targets the areas around the San Lucas Xolox, Empalme del Rey, Huitzila, and Huehuetoca stations. It seeks to ensure a fair distribution of responsibilities and advantages for these communities. To achieve this, municipal governments from Coyotepec, Huehuetoca, Tecámac, and Temascalapa will collaborate on territorial planning and land management studies.

These local efforts will be coordinated with the federal Secretariat of Agrarian, Territorial, and Urban Development (Sedatu) and the state Secretariat of Urban Development and Infrastructure (Sedui). Carlos Maza Lara, head of Sedui, emphasized the need to combine efforts for strategic urban development planning, particularly in the context of major projects like trains and airports. The goal is to promote orderly urban expansion, guided by local regulations, to identify and address territorial needs and future scenarios arising from the railway infrastructure.

This initiative is expected to bring benefits such as orderly urban expansion, based on applicable local legal frameworks. The collaboration aims to technically, legally, and administratively identify territorial needs and prospective scenarios concerning the impacts of implementing the railway infrastructure.