Mexico overpass collapse series#
The dozens of deaths and injuries caused by the collapse was the culmination of a long series of red-flag incidents that should have prompted authorities to suspend service or shut down the line completely, they say. I don’t think so, but the investigators will have to look into that.”Ĭommuters told CNN that over the years they had seen signs – an uneven wall, a crack, service interruptions – that made them wonder about its safety. “Some have inferred that the damage resulting from the Septemearthquake caused the collapse. There was indeed damage to a column that had to be repaired in 2017,” Alcocer said. “What happened with this structure is that there have been indeed some deficiencies in other stretches and we may want to extrapolate what happened with those stretches with what happened with the one that failed. Mexico City subway overpass collapses, killing at least 24 and injuring dozens Rescuers work at a site where an overpass for a metro partially collapsed with train cars on it at Olivos station in Mexico City, Mexico May 3, 2021. Sergio Alcocer, a structural engineer and researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Engineering School, said it is impossible to tell at first sight what caused the accident, even if there were cracks in the walls or bent beams.
Mexico City officials said at a press conference the day after the accident that the last structural inspection was done in January 2020 and showed no irregularities. If this doesn’t get fixed, immediately an accident can happen,” Gaviño Ambriz said. “I believe that if there are already photos from 2020 taken by some neighbors and showing the stretch that collapsed was already getting curved, a beam that curved down like a bow. “Evidently, it could’ve been avoided with proper maintenance,” said Gaviño Ambriz. Jorge Gaviño Ambriz, who served as Mexico City’s Metro Director between 20, said he believes the collapse could have been avoided, though he would like to see first what kind of maintenance and inspection was done throughout the line. ‘It could’ve been avoided with proper maintenance’ View of the site of a train accident after an elevated metro line collapsed in Mexico City on May 4, 2021. The Golden Line was supposed to connect historically marginalized neighborhoods with more prosperous areas of the Mexican metropolis and give people equal access to jobs, cultural centers and some of the best things Mexico City has to offer in an affordable way.īut several experts who spoke with CNN in the days following the collapse say this was a tragedy foretold. Carlos Slim, Mexico’s richest man and owner of one of the construction companies involved, was also there.īut fast forward eight years and the Golden Line is, in many respects, a symbol of Mexico’s social ills and challenges from corruption to impunity, inequality to negligence – especially after last week’s deadly elevated rail collapse killed at least 26 people, making headlines around the world. The highly publicized ribbon-cutting was attended by the who’s-who of Mexican politics and power at the time, including then-president Felipe Calderón and Marcelo Ebrard, who was then in his last days as Mexico City’s mayor and is now foreign minister. “It reflects a technological advancement and state-of-the-art features that can only be compared to the construction of the great metro systems of the world,” a Mexico City government official boasted during the kickoff ceremony. It’s known as the “Golden Line.” The Mexico City subway system Line 12, spanning 25.1 kilometers (15.6 miles) and featuring 20 stations, was touted as one of the most expensive and ambitious public works projects in Mexican history when it was inaugurated in October 2012.
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