Tren Maya, The Mexican Bullet Train

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Chunky Monkey Traveler

Күн бұрын

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@spark_6710 Ай бұрын

I like the colours of the interior, seats ...all grey / bright turquoise blue !! Lovely !! 😍 👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🇲🇽🚈💕💞

@spark_6710 Ай бұрын

Go Mexico 🇲🇽 💪 👏 Viva Mexico 🇲🇽 Lots of love from Los Angeles !!🌟 👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🇲🇽🚈💕💞

@spark_6710 Ай бұрын

I'm also impressed by how clean the platforms are ! No litters ! Very spacious stations ,too !! 😍👍👍

@tomsmith2135 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the tour.😊

@sav6203 Ай бұрын

Wooow🎉

@Sean-gf5wf 2 ай бұрын

Nice looking train. We don’t have bars on our trains. 😊

@mundo.mexico 2 ай бұрын

Great video, saludos.

@moi20003 2 ай бұрын

World class!

@ChunkyMonkeyTraveler 2 ай бұрын

@@moi20003 I believe from the infrastructure I saw, that this train maybe fully electric in the future.

@almacarranza5816 Ай бұрын

Bullet?? ha ha!

@ProfessorFickle 2 ай бұрын

It only goes 160km/h About 100mph . That’s not a bullet train . But it’s fast .

@GrantMcWilliams 2 ай бұрын

It's a fantastic project but labeling it a bullet train is a little bit click baity. The IE-Tram electric bus that takes you from the Teya Tren Maya station to La Plancha (Merida centro) only costs 14 pesos for people who have a Va-y-ven card. If you don't have one it costs 55 pesos. Still cheap without it, but super cheap with the card. You can get the Va-y-ven cards at the vending machine at La Plancha. They also work on the 1300 brand new hybrid buses that Yucatan has purchased in the last 2 years as well as the other 5 electric IE-Tram routes. The price on the buses is 12 pesos for one ride, 6 pesos for the second and free for the third for transfers. It's well work the effort to pick up if you'll be around the city very long.

@ChunkyMonkeyTraveler 2 ай бұрын

Ya probably right about being click baity🤣But I do appreciate the info about the card. Some college students we rode with that where from Merida had those cards. I didn't realize they were available to anyone. I did see infrastructure slowing going up for possibly going fully electric maybe??? Then maybe we will get that bullet train ranking.🤣🤣🤣Thank you for watching sir.

@GrantMcWilliams 2 ай бұрын

@@ChunkyMonkeyTraveler The train between Merida and Cancun is full electric right now but when you get past Merida the train switches to diesel power. The "locomotives" are hybrid DMUs where they can run on Diesel or Electric and are made by Alstom, the French company that builds the TGV (actual bullet train). They're built in Mexico and the top speed is 160kph (100 mph). The plan for the Tren Maya is for it to be electric from Merida to Cancun and then south all the way to Chetumal. The rest will stay diesel for now but could be updated at any point. There is more optimization time in the schedule, for instance the train sits in Merida and Campeche for 8 minutes each. It sits in the smaller stations a couple of minutes too. There's probably 20-25 minutes of lag time in the schedule currently which is used to ensure the train is on time. There has been mention of an express train that doesn't stop at the in-between stops in the future. If the Cancun-Merida train skipped Tixcocob, Izamal, Nueva Xcan, and Leona Vicario it would shave about another 20 minutes off (10 minutes in station, 10 minutes in the slowdown/speedup). With this rolling stock I'd be shocked if they could ever get the Merida to Cancun trip to be shorter than 2:50 though. Anything faster than that will need new rolling stock. However that's a lot better than the 4 hour bus ride to Cancun followed by another 50 minute bus to the airport. Even the 3:30 current timing is better. The Tren Maya folks ordered 42 trainsets and have only received half of them currently but when the rest get built they're planning on having 10 trains per day between Merida and Cancun. This has been an interesting project to watch and it has given Mexico the political willpower and confidence to keep building. Claudia Sheirnbaum says construction on the Mexico City to Queretaro line starts in April of 2025! Back to the Va-y-Ven card. There's a Va-y-Ven app, it's a bit odd to use but it has real-time data on the buses. The schedule data is also handed over to Google so if you use Google maps you can see when the next bus is coming. The Merida-Progreso bus however, is not in the system and I expect in the future it will be replaced by a Va-y-Ven bus that is. You saw Cancun's Electric buses for taking people from the Tren Maya station to the airport. Merida has the IE-Tram to take people to the city and Campeche has a double articulated "tram" which is an electric bus that runs on the old train roadbed (but on tires). It's not operational yet but will be. Overall, this has been a fantastic investment into SE Mexico! Have fun.

@ChunkyMonkeyTraveler 2 ай бұрын

@@GrantMcWilliams Awesome awesome information and knowledge. I thank you sir.

@Mars-ev7qg Ай бұрын

I'll bet pemex has something to do with the lack of electrification. Hopefully, this will get fixed before these trains leak too much diesel into sensitive habits and indigenous land.

@petitvulkan 2 ай бұрын

Its not a bullet train!! Just regular train as regionals european trains 🤦🏻‍♂️

@TimLeffel 12 күн бұрын

Bullet train? The very TOP speed is 100 mph, most of the time far less. That's a far cry from the speed in Asia and Europe.

@pinchecoot Ай бұрын

UNESCO never heard about what is happened couple miles from tren Maya, if they speak about environment destruction kzbin.info/www/bejne/aX7bZ2uhip2VjpYsi=c4qyrmawOtLCdLcr

@almacarranza5816 Ай бұрын

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