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#1 ·
First Bullet Train in North America to be Built in Mexico

Mexico to open bidding on rapid train project

El Universal
Viernes 18 de noviembre de 2005
Miami Herald,

Mexico will open bidding on a US12 billion bullet train project to link the capital with the country's second-largest city, Guadalajara.
The bidding is expected to begin by early 2006 after a feasibility study is completed, Transportation Secretary Pedro Cerisola y Weber said Wednesday.

The train would reduce travel times on a 600-kilometer (375mile) route that would also link the central Mexico cities of Queretaro, Irapuato and Leon. Mexico City is seven hours from Guadalajara by bus; officials have not said how long the journey would take on the bullet train.

Mexico City was left without passenger trains in 2001 for the first time in 127 years. Work is now scheduled on a suburban commuter rail line.

Most national passenger runs were quietly canceled in 1999 following decades of mismanagement of the state-owned passenger rail service. Mexican trains carried 37.4 million passengers a year at their peak in the 1970s.
 
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#517 ·
MarcVD,

There is of course an administrative process in China too. A country without it can not function. And remember there's a ton of non-democratic countries not building HSR. That in itself is not an argument. What China do have is effective means of allocating investment to areas that are politically prioritized. Compare this to HSR in the US where several years are spent on getting government funding. It's that process that China has cut out as it's a centralized economy.
 
#519 ·
That's what I meant. Once the decision is taken, there is no possibility for
citizens possibly impacted to seek recourse, and they certainly do not
embarrass themselves with environmental impact studies or archeological
surveys. That alone can save 50% of the elapsed time. And there won't be
endless discussions about where the funding is going to come from either.
 
#525 ·
China Expected to Supply Mexico with High-Speed 'Bullet' Trains



China will likely begin supplying Mexico bullet trains through a consortium of four Chinese companies and four Mexican firms, reports Caixin Online. It would mark the first time China has exported its high-speed trains.

[...]

http://www.chinatopix.com/articles/...ction-corp-mexico-s-a-de-c-v-and-csr-corp.htm


I've read that the mexican secretary of communications and transportation is optimistic about the chinese proposal.

"If we had accepted an 240 days extension, it would implied to lose more that a thousand million mexican pesos per year in resources already contemplated to be spent on the train in 2015".

http://www.radioformula.com.mx/notas.asp?Idn=450507&idFC=2014
 
#542 ·
but thats only a draft, not the definitive design, only for schematic purposes.

there will be also lots of interiorism adequations for the mexican market.
 
#546 ·
info:

GHP Infrastructure, the name of the consortium with a participation of 51% CRCC, 49% mexican companies, will be officialized once they be declared winners of the tender.
The mexican partners will focus 100% in civil engineering, the chinese counterpart will participate in the project, the technical managing, electromechanical, rolling stock supply and support funding.
subcontractor assigned Systra a french subsidiary of the National Society of French Railways (SNCF) with which they have been working for several months in the engineering design as well as consulting for the operation and maintenance of the HSR.
 
#550 · (Edited)
BREAKING NEWS​

China Railway Construction Corporation winner of the Mexico Queretaro High Speed Rail, the 1st in the Americas.

CRCC's bid is declared technically and economically solvent for a cost of $3.2billions plus $0.57billions for 5 years maintenance and operation by Systra.
The chinese bid is based on the spanish company PROINTEC design for the route. The spanish INECO did the evaluation of the chinese bid.

The chinese bid outpaces the basic requirements of the tender.
 
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