Allegations about poor design and construction on the subway line emerged soon after Ebrard left office as mayor. The collapse could represent a major blow for Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, who was Mexico City’s mayor from 2006 to 2012, when Line 12 was built. Like many of the city’s dozen subway lines, it runs underground through more central areas of the city of 9 million, but then runs on elevated, pre-formed concrete structures on the city’s outskirts. The collapse occurred on the newest of the Mexico City subway’s lines, Line 12, which stretches far into the city’s southside. With little information and a still serious coronavirus situation in Mexico City, López said “they are not telling us anything, and people are just crowding together.” In 2017, authorities patched and widened the column by injecting resins, swathing it in carbon fiber, building a jacket of additional rebar around the base and pouring concrete around the collar.“We lost contact with her, at 10:50 p.m., there was literally no more contact,” López said. The death toll from the collapse of an overpass on the Mexico City metro rose to 24 Tuesday as crews untangled train carriages from the steel and concrete wreckage that fell onto a roadway.
MEXICO CITY SUBWAY OVERPASS COLLAPSE CRACKED
Like many of the dozen subway lines, it runs underground through more central areas of the city of 9 million but is on elevated concrete structures on the outskirts.Ī report issued by the subway system including photos in 2017 showed that the base of one vertical column supporting the tracks had cracked and shed layers of concrete because not enough steel rebar stirrups had been used when it was built around 2010. A railway overpass has collapsed in Mexico City, sending a commuter train plummeting to the ground below, killing at least 24.
The collapse occurred on Line 12, the subway’s newest, that stretches to the city’s south side. 1:40 Mexico City subway overpass collapse kills at least 24 people. in the earthquake, and the authorities didn’t pay attention,” Yañez said, noting similar problems were reported at another nearby station, but nothing was done. “That part there was already declared bad.
The scene shook him because he had exited the metro at that same station earlier in the day. Helicopters landed at a nearby Walmart to ferry the injured to hospitals. He saw a cloud of dust and falling debris followed by an eerie silence until emergency vehicles began arriving. Julio Yañez, a 67-year-old lawyer whose apartment overlooks the collapsed metro line, was working at his computer when he heard a loud noise and felt his building shake. Authorities at the time had done patchwork repairs on the columns and horizontal beams. In October 1975, at least 26 people were killed in another accident.Ī magnitude 7.1 earthquake in 2017 exposed dangerous construction defects in the elevated line near where Monday’s accident occurred. In 2015, a train that did not stop on time crashed into another at the Oceania station, injuring 12. In March 2020, a collision between two trains at the Tacubaya station left one passenger dead and injured 41. World Mexico City metro overpass collapses onto road 23 dead Mexico City's subway cars lay at an angle after a section of Line 12 of the subway collapsed in Mexico City, Tuesday, May 4, 2021. The Mexico City Metro - which is among the world’s cheapest with tickets costing about 25 cents -has had at least three serious accidents since its inauguration half a century ago. “Then a guy in a white shirt with blood on his arms, his hands and chest came out and another guy came to help him here on the sidewalk, and he was there trembling,” he said.
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