The flagship project of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador that was inaugurated on December 15, 2023, is a work still unfinished that will one day travel a 1,554-kilometer circuit through the states of Tabasco, Chiapas, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo. In his X account (formerly Twitter), the engineer and digital strategist narrated the ordeal he experienced as a passenger of the Maya Train, on his second foray into the railroad, he arrived on vacation in Yucatán, so he traveled from Mérida to San Francisco de Campeche. “I thought that after 6 months of using it for the first time when I traveled from Teya to Tixkokob, it would already have passengers or at least operational commercial premises in the train stations, but everything remains the same as six months ago,” Edgar posted on X.
In the publication where he shows photos and videos of the deserted station, he adds: “I have this and many other pieces of evidence that the station in Mérida was totally empty, it looked like a total ghost site, the only thing different is that they had CFE wifi at the station.” First of all, one of the things that surprised the traveler while traveling on the Maya Train was that after 6 months of his first trip on it, he thought that the project would be completed, but it was not the case at all, as construction workers could be seen everywhere. “In every corner, you could see that the workers were just finishing installing the stairs, the tracks, the sc.