MEXICO CITY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION 

I just realized that Mexico City has better public transportation than NYC 😩

That one where you were uncomfy is called “microbus” And the main reason we use them is because those are the only that arrives the suburbs and stretch streets

Hay otro servicio integrado que se llama TREN LIGERO, está al sur de la a ciudad, es similar al metro pero con menos velocidad y capacidad, también el TREN SUBURBANO, este se encuentra al norte de la ciudad, igual muy similar al metro, pero este sistema integra a municipios del estado de México y territorio de la ciudad de México, diferentes entidades que forman la zona metropolitana, y por último está en construcción el TREN INTERURBANO MÉXICO TOLUCA que comunicara 2 ciudades muy cercanas en el centro del país

I enjoyed your video. The Microbuses or "peseros" were a quick solution to overcome the insane demand for public transportation in the early nineties and it is a private system which means that every bus is owned by an individual who takes a bank loan and does the driving himself or hires a driver. Before this, the peseros were ordinary cars, if you look for videos from the 1970s and 1980s you'll see a lot of four door Ford Galaxy or Chevy Nova cars that were spacious and could carry up to 4 passengers. As this became insufficient, then the VW Combis started to replace those cars and could carry up to 10 and sometimes even eleven people. The name "pesero" is attributed to the fact that the initial cost for a ride was $1 peso but that was in the late 1960s

Great video. I just recently learned that Wyman also designed the metro map for Washington DC. I love riding the subway in Mexico City... when it is not crowded. When the conditions are optimal you can go from one of the city to the other very quickly.

Thanks for the great video Andrii. Very informative. I like that you venture beyond the touristic districts which are really nice but Mexico City has so much more to offer. The transportation system is expanding all the time. Here are some of the highlights coming in the next two years. -Line 12 expansion from Metro Mixcoac to Metro Observatorio -Intercity train between Toluca-Mexico City with Mexico City stations at Santa Fe, Vasco de Quiroga and Metro Observatorio. This one I'm really looking forward to as it will be on elevated rails with great views of the mountains and forests surrounding the city -Cablecar Line 3 to the west connecting with Metro Constituyentes and Line 4 to the south connecting with Metro Universidad -Expansion of Ecobici by 40%. This will also include a complete revamp of the existing stations and bikes -Expansion of suburban rail train to the new Mexico City International Airport north of the city That's without mentioning the capital improvement projects in existing systems like the metro. This video gives a good summary with more details than you probably care to know haha. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Hj6xnBZtL-8.html

Hi I just found your video. We use the "camiones" and "peseros" because they have very specific routes to very specific places, and usually they leave you closer to those places, the "movilidad integrada" ones are only in the main streets so we would have to walk more.

Thank you for watching! Please let me know your thoughts in the comments!

Mexico city Metro is more impressive than NYC METRO

nice video about the public transit in CDMX... at last one video that is not about Roma, Condesa, and Polanco...

I love that there's variety and definitely agree about the cable car being the best. I didn't realize how inexpensive it is to travel around the city although I would need to get used to no A/C.

As your biggest fan, I would say this is your best video so far! 😇

Totally a different type of video that I have seen of Mexico city. Thanks for the info ⭐

This was a very well done video, very fascinating to see how well connected and developed all those different modes look. I have a bit of a collection of metro cards from different cities and the one there looks like it's really cool to have

Andrii, the green microbuses are being replaced by larger and more comfortable purple buses, these are concessions to private companies and they are already forcing them to improve their services

This was a really awesome video. Really well-made and insightful. Five stars! Thanks for sharing, Andrii. I'm subscribing! Please share more on Mexico City.

Nice video bro, very helpful!

Thank you for this video!! I am going to CdMx in September and wanted to know about the mass transit. I prefer at least trying mass transit when i visit anywhere to not be such a tourist. Can wait to try the Periferico (cable car).

Thank you for all the info and explanation of the symbols. It helps with my trip prep.

Muy buen contenido. Great content and well presented. It was a fun video and it did represent the real life experience of the public transportation in Mexico City. Cheers!

Very informative! Thank you. I would like to ride the cable car just for fun!

Awesome tour, great content!

I’m so glad you decided to walk around that neighborhood outside the cablebus, you experienced what 0.1% of tourists experience, and only do if they have relatives here or if it’s a farmer’s market in a nice place of town. Very good, you now have barrio with you.

I really like your videos! I live in Mexico City but it's very interesting to know the foreigner point of view!

Amazing content, thank you! Regarding your question: The Camión/microbus/pecero/combi are normally used because they cover routes that those of the Movilidad Integrada doesn't. Movilidad integrada contains the backbone of the transporte público in México City, but these other routes can normally take you all the way inside neighborhoods in different administrative regions of the megalopolis (México City/ Estado de México/Hidalgo). I would note that the Tren Ligero and the Tren Suburbano are not mentioned in this video (the first takes you to the Estadio Azteca and Xochimilco, the second to the north and, in a few years, to the new airport). Then there's the transporte público of the Estado de México... but thats way more complicated haha. Thanks!

A couple of years ago, Palacio de Bellas Artes had an exhibit on the metro - it was very informative and interesting too!

Great video. Just got I loved the MetroBus. Nicer to be able to look at the cityscape. And also people talk to you more and are less paranoid.

Wow! It looks very modern n extensive 😍

Thank you so much, very useful video!

I liked seeing this video! When I'm there-CDMX-I'm hestitant (scared?) to use the public system so I call Uber. Then I just get caught-up in a whole lot of surface congestion. You opened my eyes to an alternative. Thanks!

Very useful video... Thank you very much 👏

Nice work! Miss you cdmx💞💞🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽😎

next time you should talk to locals about pros and cons. eg. ecobici you have to be careful that they don't charge you by mistake or that you fail to mount the bike back on the rack, refunds are a bit of a pain in the ass if there is some mistake.

A mexican faces reality when he uses a pesero. You sacrifice comfort and quality for practicality and cheapness. One of those reaches to where the others don't, saves you walking, and people merely have accepted the discomfort as a test of resilience in life. 😂 Lately the city has replaced them for newer units in some places, and they've gotten more expensive. Soon they might be made obsolete by the expanding trolleybuses and metrobuses.

La razón porqué usamos más el transporte privado, llámese combis o camiones o microbuses, es porque tienen mucho más rutas y te llevan hacia los extremos de la ciudad lo que llamamos zona conurbada. El metro puede acercarte pero siempre hay que tomar uno de estos "micros" para llegar a destino. No son tan malos, lo que más nos preocupa es encontrar lugar en hora pico 😅 Buen viaje!

Thanks! Really good video! I've wanted to take that teleférico since it opened Sometimes the camiones are there so you hop on, usually they go to "under served areas", so there really isn't a choice

interesting video o transportation in mexico city

Good video 👍🏻

Tamales in bread (Guajolota) is a STAPLE in CDMX

OMG I was on a caminí ones and the driver was driving like a mad man! I had to go on one with my cousin, because she didn’t have enough money for an Uber. The driver was speeding and almost ran over a man that was yelling at him on the rode to stop! It was so packed that a man was hanging on at the door entrance. Yes I thought for sure he was going to fall out of the bus. I had my eyes closed and prayed that we would get to our stop in one piece.

Nice Video

loved the video and btw FOR FOOD ITS SABROSO* LOL it was funny hearing you say " its sabrosa" next to the woman

It's true. Mole and bread don't go together but people do as a way to take mole as to-go food in sandwich or torta form for lunch at work or a trip

watch out for pick-pockets on the metro and metrobus... speaking from experience. Note that once inside the Metro you can transfer indefinitely onto other lines without paying extra, but you cannot transfer on the buses without paying again. If you take the Metrobus to the airport there is an extra charge of 50 pesos. Great system.... use it all the time whenever I am in CDMX.

19:20 - Why are you wondering? those buses are natives of our ukrainian marshrutkas) completely the same)

9:46 welcome to Mexico City

I hope you check Tren suburbano next time, it is a really good option that helps us get from the north area to Mexico City in a fast, safe and comfortable way

17:52 - is he yelling to take off the camera?)

I hope you can make a video to the AIFA, the new airport for CDMX. via train! Saludos.

19:40 They are geniuses who describe random people in extreme detail and it is so clever and funny.

The metro bus from paseo de la reforma are from England, are double decker like the ones from London. Actually, when they bring those buses to Mexico City. for making publicity, some metro stations where painted like underground stations from London

We use the unconfortable buses cause metro, metrobus, trolleys, etc. don't cover enought of the city, three years ago i used to take a bus like that to get to university but now there is a new metrobús line and now i take that, but still prefer metro over buses

Doppelmayr is Austrian. They have built several systems throughout the country.

Completo tu video, los micro buses se han ido reemplazando paulatinamente por los otros servicos de trasnporte, falto el tren ligero que va de la estacion metro Taxqueña a Xochimilco, y el tren interurbano de la cdmx al estado de Mexico, me gusto por la objetividad con que lo desribiste

No A/C because it’s not hot in Mexico City. It rarely gets above 30C there.

Wow for a city so incredibly large/crowded the stations are incredibly clean. Here in San Francisco, Calif...they are filled with zombies (drug addicts) and trash.

For senior citizens over 60 the transportación system is free

really wish you put links to all the bikes, metro, scooters..etc...in the description...

Uy! Qué nervios en el 🚠 cablebus.😱🥴!

Beautifully filmed video. What camera do you use?

🇲🇽❤️

Friend, you missed line 12, it would have been a very rare but unique experience :)

What remarkable and outstanding work!! Pinche wero u r such a Capo!!! A new subscriber here !

have iguanas, turtles or any wild spice in Mexico is a federal crime..but that neighthood surelly no body care ja.

17:40 та це ж наші рідні милі серцю маршрутки :)

Whatever you do, do NOT take the buses with the purple icons on Google Maps. Those are peseros, not part of the Metro system, and you will be lucky if they take you where they're supposed to.

also - i heard google maps isn't good for metro...what app or maps would you suggest for subway, bus, cable? thx

18:53 Lol!!!!!! very low ceiling

how do we get ' the card' or app before getting there?

I wonder if you can expand on why you like NY city subway and why did you think that Mexico's city was "not very nice but it is decent"? Having used but systems, I cannot even imagine where that correlation comes from. NY city's is loud and extremely dirty which is the complete oposite of Mexico's. So, I wonder what's the perspective from which you see it.

I found your channel just now...I love your content and you won a new follower too! ;-) fun fact NYC metro system is gross... OMG I could not believe it was in such horrible shape...with so many homeless, and people with mental illness, and full of giant rats, !!! No comparison with CDMX

Tren suburbano :)

I would like to remind the gringo that the first country that implemented a cable car as a means of mass transportation was Colombia, in the city of Medellín, the original idea began and began here in 2004.

Hello frend🤝🤝🤝

Fortunately Microbuses are on the wey to disapear from the urban scenary pretty soon in CDMX and they all are being replaced by brand new purple color more modern units.

Duh ...ppl take those smaller buses because they are more conveniente for some ppl in as far as bus stops, the other services have specific shops and on those smaller buses the driver can pretty much stop where ever you need him to stop. Simple really. Also, yes those more modern buses do have a/c, perhaps you felt hot because of the sheer number of bodies in there and because ppl take it upon themselves to crack open the windows so ofc all the heat from outside comes in. Believe me, buses in the states aren't much better. Buses and stations in cdMX are way clean in comparison as well.

He forgot to mention the Xochimilico 🚈 light rail!!

14:37 - looks like there is AC in trolleybus (probably it is not launched - typically for poor countries; the same in Ukraine). The fare in trolleybuses - absurdly cheap. Where do they get money for maintenance? From what resources they produce electricity in Mexico? Coal, gas, ... ?

¡Hola, pero qué gran video!. Sinceramente me atrevería a decirte que conociste más partes de la ciudad que muchos de los que vivimos aquí. Debo decirte varias precisiones, el cablebus de la ciudad fue pensado para beneficiar la movilidad de las personas que por muchos años, décadas han sido olvidados. Por ello, no hay como tal lugares turísticos, pero yo soy de la idea de que las autoridades de esos lugares cercanos al cablebus y los mismos pobladores deberían buscar diseñar productos turísticos que compartir a turistas y no sólo como medio de transporte, Por ejemplo, donde te bajaste y fuiste al mercado a escasos 15 minutos en carro hay unas pirámides que pocos conocen, tanto en Acatitlan como Tenayuca... no entiendo por qué no han hecho ruta turística desde ahí, para que visiten esos lugares curiosos como tú. Y otra precisión, sobre los microbuses, los camiones de techo bajo, pues se siguen usando porque no hay opciones. Pero, tiene algo que ver con el comentario anterior. Antes donde ahora hay cablebus, la unica opción era bajar por esos camiones pequeños u otros tipo camioneta, como el actual gobierno prefirió darle prioridad a los más pobres y marginados. Es por ello que todavía hay zonas donde existen los microbuses, pero esperemos que en un futuro no muy lejano, eso cambie. Porque como bien dices, son incómodos, son de particulares y dan un pésimo servicio, son quienes provocan más accidentes y tráfico, son sucios y por el precio no valen la pena. Aquí en México es mejor el transporte público gestionado por el gobierno que el servicio público que ofrecen los gestionados o concesionados a privados. Y no te preocupes, el rap del chavo no decía nada ofensivo, o por lo menos no la parte que compartiste. Saludos y siempre bienvenidos a la Ciudad de México, nuestra Gran Tenochtitlán. La ciudad que lo tiene Todo. 😊❤🇲🇽

19:45 they tell you that you own them 500 pesos for the video and then talked about some woman’s watch (was so big that looks like a compass 🧭 or a wall clock)

How can I get the card?

Nice channel) Aren't you from Ukraine?

That's a torta de tamal, very Mexico city. You don't see that in many other places in the country. Lolol. The micros/hyenas. Lolol. Those get into all the neighborhoods in the city, they drop you off at the corner of your home.

Microbuses are a disgrace for our city. It is inhuman to use those things.

In Mexico City the subway sistem is better than New York

They say it, "son 500 por video" jajsja you are in debt whit them

It's so sad let tht city in hands of people who doesn't have idea how to be a big city.. maybe tha capital is going to be worst if they not have any invest on them... I would like the Vlley of Mexico as Cuautitlan Izcalli would have more Canadian and American style and make it great.. Mexico is big but the mestizo who are the generation from spain and indigenous mixed are losing because when the indigenous who speak spanish take power and the mestizos have to deal with the most indigenous people arriving to the city... the capital is great but it has been suffer from the same ones... the valle de Mexico need new people more invest.

you need to work on your pronunciation

THE PROBLEM WITH THE BUSES IN CDMX AND THE STATE OF MEXICO IN WHICH YOU PAY IN CASH IS THAT YOU HAVE TO KNOW THE NAME OF THE PLACE OF YOUR DESTINATION FOR EXAMPLE YOU TELL HIM I WILL GO DOWN IN CHAPULTEPEC AND WE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE THE DRIVER WILL CHARGE YOU BUT IN SOME CASES LIKE CHAPULTEPEC HE COULD ASK YOU AT WHAT "HEIGHT" SO YOU TELL HIM A MORE EXACT PLACE BECAUSE CHAPULTEPEC IS VERY BIG YOU CAN TELL HIM I GO TO THE ENTRANCE OF THE ZOO OR I GO TO THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OR ETC. SO IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE NAMES, AN UBER IS BETTER IN OTHER CASES, BEFORE GOING DOWN, YOU HAVE TO ANTICIPATE YOUR DOWNLOAD AND YOU HAVE TO TELL THE DRIVER I WILL GET OUT AT THAT CORNER (OK IF IT IS ALLOWED) AND YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THE NAME WHERE YOU GOT UP AND TELL THE DRIVER SO HE CAN CHARGE YOU THE DISTANCE WTF SO IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE CITY YOU WILL NOT KNOW THE NAME OF THE AREA WHERE YOU GOT ON AND UNLESS A TOURIST WILL KNOW WHERE TO GET OFF THE TRANSPORT AND THOSE THINGS THEY CALL COMBIS ARE VANS WHICH SUPPOSEDLY ARE BUILT FOR A COUPLE OF PASSENGERS BUT TO EARN MORE THEY PUT EXTRA SEATS IN THEM AND THE DRIVERS WANT TO PUT IN ALL THE PEOPLE THEY CAN LIKE CANNED SARDINES TOURISTS WITH LUGGAGE SUITCASES IN THESE MINIVANS WILL SUFFER HELL IF THEY TRY TO BOARD THEY BETTER USE UBER AND MORE IF YOU ARE NOT THIN (LESS THAN 50 KILOGRAMS)

Sao Paulo, Brazil, #1st largest megacity in the entire American continent. Brazil🇧🇷 Mexico City (CDMX), Mexico, #2nd Largest megacity in the entire American continent.🇲🇽 New York City, USA, #3rd largest megacity in the entire American continent.🇺🇸

The cable bus appears in the new video of Elton John and Britney Spears

The subway in Mexico is much nicer and cleaner than the one in New York, what are you saying?

¿No se supone que odian mexico? que horror.