It has been nine years since construction began on the extension of the Line 12 of the Metroof Mixcoac to Observatoryit’s been a little over a month since Clara Brugada assumes the leadership of the Government, it is still unknown when it will be ready.
There are currently seven contracts relating to the construction which were temporarily suspended, while three others are in force, but their execution should have been completed several months ago, according to the most recent report from the General Directorate of Works for the Transport.
He delay of work It has also caused discontent among residents, who say they have stopped receiving support from the local government due to the effects on business.
Avenida Central street, at its junction with C street, in the colony First Victoryhas metal walls blocking the passage to the artery for eight years. This is one of the open work points that, according to the settlers, has not had any visible progress.
Since construction began, the walls completely cover the view towards business of the colony, involving two restaurants, a stationery store, an electrical appliance repair shop, a cafeteria and a pharmacy, totaling 20 families affected in that area of the municipality. Alvaro Obregon.
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Cesar Huerta, who lives in Central Avenuehe said, according to personnel of the construction siteit will take several years to finish it: “Engineers They said they would leave in eight months, because they were going to build a substation on this side, but a police officer says they have eight more years to go.”
In an interview with El Sol de México, he explained that, in previous years, the affected businesses received from the local government 4 thousand 900 pesos per monthbut it’s been eight months since I received them.
“This continues, at night they don’t let you sleep, there is noise, there is a lot of dust, we have to do cleaning constantly“They come to clean their bathrooms, their latrines that they have inside, and it has a very unpleasant smell,” he said.
He project dates back to 2013, when the transfer of 2 billion pesos of the SMinistry of Transport and Communications to the local government to complete the Mixcoac-Tláhuac section and begin the expansion.
Construction began in July 2015 and, according to the first contract, the works would last a year and a half, which did not happen. The justification was that there was not enough budget for the construction site.
Eight months later, the Department of Public Works and the Metro They announced that in April 2016 they would begin the work and that it would be completed in 2018, but before finishing his term, the then head of Government, Miguel Angel Mancera, said that the expansion would remain unfinished. In December of that year the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Claudia Sheinbaum, former local leader, committed to finishing the work in 2021.
At the most recent session of the Committee on Works of Mexico Citythe General Directorate of Works for Transport iThe “temporary partial suspension” of contract DGOT-LPN-F-1-028-19, consisting of the installation of track on the Mixcoac-Observatorio section, work that is 54.6 percent complete, was reported.
Contract DGOT-LPN-F-1-029-19, with progress of 52.1 percent, has temporary total suspension for manufacturing, supply, installation and testing of stairs and elevators.
Another contract under these conditions is DGOT-LPN-F-1-031-19, for the manufacturing, supply, installation and tests of the major ventilation and fire protection systems, whose progress was 77.38 percent.
This is added to the agreement DGOT-LPN-F-5-016-19, for the supervision of the implementation project, supply of materials, construction, equipment, installation, integration and tests for the assembly of the track. The assembly was already at 71.3 percent.
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Two other suspended contracts that were almost ready are: IISGCONV-016-2016 and IISGCONV-017-2016, signed with UNAM, for technical advice on structural aspects.
Meanwhile, there is contracts that are still active, but that modified their end date to remain valid. This is document DGOT-IR-F-5-045-2022, for the supervision of the civil works and complementary works that should have been completed in April of this year. Another contract is DGOT-IR-F-1-044-2022, whose execution should have been completed in March 2024, and which consists of the construction of civil works in the tail of Mixcoac towards the new Valentín Campa station. At the time of going to press, the Secretariat of Public Works had not issued any comments.