Mexico City
CITY LEADER Claudia SheinbaumMexico City is one of the first two cities to receive support from the C40 Cities Finance Facility. This project has the potential to pave the way for other cities to shift their buses to low or zero emission technologies, particularly in Latin America. As cities tackle the increasingly serious issue of air pollution, Mexico City can lead the way in pioneering new, creative approaches at reducing air pollution and transport emissions.
Mexico City is one of the first two cities to receive support from the C40 Cities Finance Facility. This project has the potential to pave the way for other cities to shift their buses to low or zero emission technologies, particularly in Latin America. As cities tackle the increasingly serious issue of air pollution, Mexico City can lead the way in pioneering new, creative approaches at reducing air pollution and transport emissions.
- PROJECT SCALE 50+ electric buses
- ESTIMATED PROJECT COSTS Phase 1: USD $115m Phase 2: USD $90m
- POPULATION 8.87 million (2014)
- TOTAL REPORTED GHG EMISSIONS 30.2 MT CO2e per year
- PROJECT OBJECTIVE Develop Mexico City’s first Zero Emissions Corridor
The C40 Cities Finance Facility supported Mexico City by developing the necessary feasibility studies for a new bus corridor project, which will include a fleet of electric buses and bicycle lanes alongside it. The new bus corridor on Eje 8 Sur will be 22km long and serve an estimated 185,000 daily trips, providing connections with five Metro lines and one Metrobus Bus Rapid Transit line. The buses will improve connections between low- and middle-income neighbourhoods and promote economic development across the area.
DAILY TRIPS ON CORRIDOR
GHG EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS (CUMULATIVE)
The CFF’s support for the development of this mobility project aiming to reduce emissions will help us access international, green finance, similar to what the city is already doing with other projects. This project will lead the way for other sustainable projects which we will deliver to our citizens in the next few years.
The project aligns with Mexico City’s ‘Integrated Mobility Programme’ (Programa Integral de Movilidad) for 2013-18, which establishes the right to mobility for all residents, focusing on pedestrians, cyclists and public transport users and pioneering inclusive governance and resilience approaches. The Department of Mobility (Secretaría de Movilidad, SEMOVI) and Electric Transportation Service (STE) were leading the project’s planning and implementation, while the CFF provided the following technical support:
- Dedicated technical advisor based within the city administration;
- Financing the mobility studies needed to make the project bankable;
- Exploring potential financing and funding structures for construction and operation of the bus corridor;
- Scoping available zero-emission bus technologies;
- Developing partnerships with multilateral banks to provide technical support.
The CFF aims to deliver a replicable and innovative model of how to finance clean buses in developing countries and emerging economies. Mexico City is one of 26 cities to have signed the Green and Healthy Streets Declaration, which commits cities to only procure zero-emission buses from 2025.
With the support of the CFF, the Eje 8 Sur project is now technically ready and Mexico City Government is promoting its implementation from Mixcoac to Santa Martha Acatitla with an elevated section (Santa Martha Acatilta – Constitución 1917) connecting people from the east (Metropolitan Area) to the west of the city with a Zero Emissions Corridor by new Trolleybuses First steps have been to purchase 63 trolleys in 2019 and at least 50 articulated units in 2020.
See below for a full list of technical and financial documents about the project.
Impact Brief
Estudio de movilidad: diagnóstico de la situación actual (Español)
Estudio de demanda de transporte del corredor (Español)
Diseño conceptual de calle completa (Español)
Estudio de Movilidad: Diseño conceptual (Español)
Análisis de tecnologías alternas para buses (Español)
Análisis de buses eléctricos para el corredor cero emisiones Eje 8 Sur (Español)
Estudio de contaminación atmosférica (Español)
Análisis jurídico, financiero, e institucional para el corredor cero emisiones Eje 8 Sur (Español)
Análisis Costo Beneficio (Español)
Estrategia de electromovilidad de la Ciudad de México 2018 - 2030 (Español)
Prefactibilidad de Instalación de paneles solares FV en instalaciones de STE (Español)
Diagnóstico básico de resiliencia y adaptación (Español)
Lineamientos para desarrollar un Plan de Acción de Género para el Eje 8 Sur (Español)
Taller de mapa de actores del proyecto (Español)
Plan de desarrollo de capacidades (Español)
Capacity Development Plan (English)
Evaluation of Electric Buses for Eje 8 Sur (English)
Alternative Bus Technologies (English)