#mexico city metro

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

That's a strange looking Subway it looks sort of like the Mexico city subway

[rye-in-a-coat]

[mikes81vw]

El Metro

[mapsontheweb]

Busiest Mexico City metro stations per quarter

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

:3

Trains :3

(these are all North America mostly the US and Mexico but a little bit of Canadian)

Neat

[quiensabecomo]

Asientos del metro

Ciudad de México, julio 2023

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AVENIDA ARCOS DE BELÉN 13, COLONIA CENTRO, CUAUHTÉMOC, CIUDAD DE MÉXICO

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[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

1500 Volt DC overhead power?

Train? :3

Choo choo!!!!

I love trains :D

[audivampion]

Junio lleno de arte en CDMX

[cuentamemascdmx]

Metro CDMX

[andrechi]

Ya es una referencia este rincón del metro 🙂

[gabevibes]

Keith Haring subway train in Mexico City 🚇

[kaoarika]

There were so many words on my tags, so I will put the more concise answers there. I chose "I have access to public transport and I use it, but I wish it was better". Like... so MUCH better.

For starters, I am from Mexico and the public transport service varies a LOT from state to state. It's not the same quality of experience in two different cities from different states.

Bus and metro rides' prices aren't the same in the entire country, for example... so it really depends on how each state's government handles and invests in their public transport.

Where I live, the public transport is decent (not good nor bad... quite mixed) at best... but it gets quite frustrating for a variety of reasons.

I use the bus rides the most when I need to (there's also the metro... but that is another whole can of worms...) but MY GOD I WISH local government paid much more attention to all the issues the bus transport system has had FOR YEARS...

I live in an area where certain routes are WAY too insecure when riding their buses on (my mom was almost robbed in one, years ago)... there are other that, understandably are WAY too long... but you also need them to get you to specific areas of the metropolitan area... but because MANY people living in the same metropolitan area go to work to the capital city of this state (certainly too big, btw)... chances are you are waiting over 20 minutes for one of these buses to stop at their respective bus stops. Logically, these routes NEED more bus units... but that's sadly not the case (while there are also new routes that I'm unfamiliar with? And I have been living in this are for over a decade, although in my defense, I also decreased my area's bus riding frequency since I graduated, in late 2014)... Govenrment-in-turn has renovated units... but hasn't increased those for these routes in need.

Also, some bus routes' stops are in the worst places possible, and some of these areas are not THAT pedestrian-friendly :'D

We also have a very much dying bus pass system implemented a decade ago that should have been useful in some way and form... but corruption and greed found a way and it has been plummeting ever since... (and it's a little cheaper than giving change to the drivers! but the drivers apparently don't get a lot of that in exchange, and it's becoming HARD to get one of these passes... unless you are a public university student, iirc? Again, graduated a long time ago, don't know if they are still doing this).

And they officially started a project of new metro lines for some of the metropolitan area's cities... which, in theory, would be ideally good... but AGAIN, it's another can of worms (because one of the lines they want to make is one of the busiest of the whole city and this kind of wip projects is going to make it worse for everyone not in the gvnmnt... in THEORY, this would have been AMAZING over 25 years ago... when the city wasn't THAT big yet), because they should be fixing the bus transport system FIRST instead of prioritizing THIS project *headdesks*

There are even new recently expanded-places that don't even have direct routes or their bus stops are in the other side of a highway w/o a pedestrian bridge at sight... FFS... I knew of ppl in my faculty that had to take a couple of buses to get to the campus, and had to wake up QUITE early in the morning to make it in time... and some classes started at 7 or 8 AM because "bad luck for them" :/.

And these are those things that are on top of my head about my local public transport these days...

Please re-blog to widen the data sample! I might use this for my statistics project at the end of the semester, and every answer is a great help :).

Please share in the tags what you picked and why if you're so inclined.

[mikes81vw]

En Camino

[mmbob]

Balón desinflado sobre el oratorio de Ehécatl, cultura mexica, Ciudad de México

Deflated football on Ehécatl oratory, aztec culture, Mexico City

Foto robada del feis de Alex Xavier Aceves