San Francisco de Campeche, December 15.- The cost of the Maya Train ticket will be cheaper than that of the buses.
That was the instruction President Andrés Manuel López Obrador gave this morning to General Óscar David Lozano Águila, general director of the Tren Maya company—a subsidiary of the Ministry of National Defense—and the head of this mega-infrastructure project.
Before launching the first trip of this new passenger train project in the southeast of the country, during the morning press conference held in this city, the federal president requested that the cost of the Maya Train ticket not be excessive.
"We're going to make sure there aren't high costs. We've already agreed with General (Lozano) Águila that train fares will always be lower than the bus fare, even if it's a little bit, because it's a blessing."
The fare for the train, whose first four runs will begin tomorrow, is 1,166 pesos for economy class and 1,862 pesos for the entire route from Campeche to Cancún or in the opposite direction. Bus fare on the same route is 1,212 pesos..
Prior to the inauguration of the first section of the Maya Train at the San Francisco Campeche station, the Chief Executive stated that by offering lower prices, "Mexicans, people from Campeche, Tabasco, Sonora, Guerrero, and anyone who wants to come will be able to enjoy the train, in addition to foreign tourists."
"They're going to prepare packages. They're going to do all of this, because there's the train, the airports, and the hotels."
He also highlighted the construction of the new Felipe Carrillo Puerto International Airport in Tulum, inaugurated 15 days ago, which will prevent the Cancún airport—which annually receives more than 30 million travelers—from becoming overcrowded.
