Overview
- A presidential decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federación establishes ATTRAPI as a decentralized body under the Infrastructure, Communications and Transport Ministry with immediate effect.
- ATTRAPI replaces the Agencia Reguladora del Transporte Ferroviario and assumes authority to plan, regulate and build components of the Mexican Railway System.
- The agency can contract federal works for tracks, yards, workshops, depots, stops, stations and terminals under criteria for functionality, accessibility, safety, connectivity and multimodality.
- Its remit includes designing, constructing and supervising urban transport and public-space projects in coordination with state and municipal governments to promote multimodal integration.
- Governance will run through a board of federal secretaries presided by the SICT, whose members hold voice and vote, while the agency’s director is appointed by the president and participates without vote; the first phase of the 3,000‑kilometer program includes AIFA–Pachuca, Mexico City–Querétaro, Querétaro–Irapuato and Saltillo–Monterrey–Nuevo Laredo.