Mexico City: Mexico’s richest person has promised to rebuild and pay the Mexican city subway segment which collapsed in May, killing 26 people, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday.
Lopez Obrador said Carlos Slim’s telecommunications and construction magnet had promised to pay rebuilding from his own pocket and return it in a year.
One of the companies initially built most parts where collapse occurred.
“He will be responsible for rebuilding all stretches, be careful to ensure it is quite safe, at no cost for the public,” said the President.
“He will pay everything, he promised,” said Lopez Obrador.
“He will not wait for legal questions (must be resolved), so he can return and work for public benefits in one year.” One of the Slim companies mostly builds a problem that has a problem from the subway line.
Slim has denied any construction defects, but a study by an external certification company quoted a bad welding in the buttons that joined the beam of steel support to the concrete layer that supported the trajectory.
The city government employs the Norwegian DNV certification company to study the possible causes of accidents on May 3, where the high line range is bent to the ground, dragging two subway cars.
The report said it didn’t seem to be enough buttons, and the concrete poured on it might be damaged; Welding between steel beam stretches also seems to have been done badly.
The existence of construction defects when the lines built between 2010 and 2012 could be a big blow to slim and for Top Mexico’s top diplomat politics career, Marcelo Ebard, the mayor at the time.
Another round of studies must be done, and criminal investigations have not produced any costs.
For almost a decade, there were reports that the project was rushed to the completion so that the subway line number 12 could be inaugurated by Ebrard, Secretary of the current foreign relations, before he left the office as mayor in 2012.
The collapse was also embarrassing to the slim.
, currently Mexico’s richest and so richest men in the world.
Slim is an engineer with training and companies currently involved in building several parts of the controversial virtual train project, which will encircle the Yucatan Peninsula.
Whatever advice on the company does a bad job on the subway will be a serious blow to its reputation as a kind of older statesman than the Mexican business community.
Because of the accident, many of the lines have been closed.
The elevated part of the track rose about 16 feet (5 meters) above the median strip and the road in South Talauac Borough which was poor.
Slim concrete column and reinforced with horizontal steel beams, which in turn supports the concrete track bed where gravel, bonds and tracks are placed.
Subway Mexico City, which serves 4.6 million riders a day, has never had one of the most needed things: money.
With the ticket price stuck at 25 cents per trip, one of the lowest levels in the world, the system has never approached paying its own costs, and depends on massive government subsidies.