2021 marked the Mexico City due to the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, accidents and elections, events that modified life, the government and even mobility in the country’s capital.
If you lost track of them, We present you the moments that marked the chilangos in 2021.
Substation fire
On Saturday, January 9, the Central Control Post 1 of the Metro Collective Transportation System of Mexico City, located on Delicias street, Colonia Centro, Cuauhtémoc mayor’s office, caught fire, leaving a police officer dead and at least 29 people injured.
The fire started at 05:48 hours, on the fourth floor of the PCC1, which fed power to lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of the capital metro.
The latest report indicated that “the lack of a key and the failure to change the oil in one of the five 85 KV transformers that supply power to the six oldest lines of the Metro network, was what caused the fire in the Post Central Control “.
After the accident, the service of the six affected lines was completely suspended, so trucks of the Passenger Transport Network (RTP) were enabled to cover the routes.
Three days later, on January 12, operations were resumed on lines 4, 5 and 6, by improvising a control center, using radios and even WhatsApp, to coordinate the arrival of trains to the stations, so the service it was very slow.
While lines 1, 2 and 3 resumed service between January 21 and February 12, until more than a month after the incident, after the construction of an emerging PCC.
Covid-19 vaccination begins
February 15 started the application of the coronavirus vaccine to older adults of three city halls of the country’s capital, who received the biological from AstraZeneca.
This first stage of immunization was extended to the 16 municipalities, so that during the following months the vaccination of all people over 60 years of age in the city was completed. Mexico City.
Months later, progress was made in vaccinating people between 50 and 59 years old; from 40 to 49; 30 to 39; from 18 to 29. Once those sectors had both doses, began with the immunization of minors with and without comorbidities.
The head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum, highlighted that Mexico City is one of the cities with the highest coronavirus vaccination coverage in the world.
CdMx goes to green traffic light due to covid
From the start of the pandemic and after the implementation of measures such as epidemiological traffic light for coronavirus, on June 4, Mexico City passed a green light for the first time, a fact that meant a respite for hundreds of businesses that could reopen, while others would increase capacity.
However, this only lasted two weeks, because in mid-June contagions began to increase again, so the capital returned to a yellow traffic light and shortly after to orange.
However, in October, it returned to the green light and so far it has been maintained and with it, the reopening of activities.
Elections divide CdMx
After the June 6 elections, the Mexico City was split in two, after the coalition It goes by the CdMx, made up of the PRD, PAN and PRI parties, took six mayoralties from Morena, leaving a total of nine demarcations governed by the opposition.
While the party that leads the Fourth Transformation was left with only seven mayors.
However, the division and the power struggle did not end there, as the opposition mayors formed a front called the Union of Mayors of Mexico City, leaving aside the council..
Face-to-face classes resume
The June 7th, hundreds of children and adolescents they returned to face-to-face classes after more than a year of taking them online due to the pandemic. Although many schools continued under a remote scheme, others chose to adapt to the new normal with hybrid classes.
Although weeks later the return to the classroom was suspended in person due to covid-19 infectionsOn August 30, the face-to-face classes began again, which have not had a break except for the end of the year holidays and holidays marked in the school calendar.
Cablebus Lines 1 and 2 inaugurated
On July 11, the head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum, inaugurated the first line of the transport system Cablebus, which goes from Indios Verdes to Cuautepec, in the Gustavo A. Madero mayor’s office.
The line operates from 05:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. and has six stations.
While Line 2, which operates in the Iztapalapa mayor’s office, was inaugurated on August 8 and even has the Guinness Record for being the longest cable car route in the world.
CdMx breaks Guinness Record
On August 8, the Cablebus Line 2, which goes from Constitución de 1917 to Santa Martha, in the Iztapalapa mayor’s office. This fact was recognized as the capital’s president as “a work of social justice.”
This transport obtained the Guinness record for the longest cable car in the world having 10.55 kilometers in a single line.
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