The metro has suffered a budget cut, even though the authorities say otherwise. That’s how he found it political animal when accounting for the public account from 2018 to 2022. According to the report, the reduction was 3 thousand 112 million 665 thousand 183 pesos and the main areas of impact were maintenance and repair, as well as the purchase of railway equipment and the area of ​​infrastructure. These are all essential aspects for the proper functioning of the Public Transport System.

The survey also reveals that in 2018 Claudia Sheinbaum received an administration that allocated 22 thousand 882 million pesos to the metro. Over the next three years, this amount was reduced to 17 thousand 102 million. Although there was an increase, in 2022, up to 19 thousand 769 million, the reduction is reflected in the noticeable difference of 3 billion in the interval 2018-2022. For this year, the budget remained at 18 thousand 847 million pesos. So it’s obvious that the interim increases tried to mask the reduction, but the final count is clear when balancing the money that was cut.

These figures contradict both Sheinbaum and Luz Elena González, Secretary of Administration and Finance of Mexico City, who maintain that the budget for this transport not only remains intact but has increased. Among the multiple daily anomalies that are part of the complaints via social networks, the collision of two trains between the stations of La Raza and Potrero has once again made the maintenance of the metro one of the critical points of the government of the capital, without there still being those responsible. for the collapse of the Olivos metro, a year and seven months ago, in the emblematic episode of the rail tragedy in Mexico.

Traveling on the subway was tinged with unnecessary anxiety. If the management of the installations, as the authorities say, did not skimp on the budget, the daily dramas would, after all, be bearable: only if the shoots, if the rivers of people; everything would be included in the fact that it was an efficient and, above all, safe means of transport. But this is not the case. In Saturday’s accident, there was one death and 59 injuries. There shouldn’t be more, it shouldn’t be a dramatic number.

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There is already too much evidence to continue to ignore it and attribute it to coincidence. It’s no more unlucky for two trains to collide than for a train falling off the elevated section of Metro Olivos. Tragedies are not only tragedies because of what they entail at the time they occur, but also because of the trace of fear they leave behind: no one can any longer say that their integrity is guaranteed in entering the subway. And it’s not even that they talk about the insecureAnother problem from the old days.

As always, the loser is the user, who has to travel by metro every day and on long journeys that also include the use of additional means of transport to reach their destinations. Lost between discussions of money, inherited problems and unresolved current problems, users must resign themselves to a transport which, even if it can be romanticized, remains uncomfortable. And now it is also insecure. Who will show up at the next accident? Who will show up if something happens and you can’t get to your destination because two trains collided? The condemnations, the promises, the justifications that everything was going badly enough?

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