Chris Hawley
Arizona Republic Mexico City Bureau
Jan. 6, 2006 12:00 AM MEXICO CITY - High-speed bullet trains whooshing across the Mexican countryside. Electric commuter trains slicing through Mexico City. Gleaming new train stations and state-of-the-art switching systems.
It’s all part of an ambitious, multibillion-dollar plan to revive train travel in Mexico, a business that was mostly abandoned in 2001 after decades of mismanagement and long, uncomfortable journeys in aging rail cars.
Now construction crews are tearing up streets along the weed-covered rails leading into Mexico City’s crumbling Buenavista station, preparing the way for a new $5 billion commuter-rail system that officials are calling the Suburban Train…
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