The Mexico City Metro is a rapid transit system serving the metropolitan area in Mexico City. It is the world’s eighth-busiest metro and North America’s second-largest rapid transit system. It serves 16 boroughs and 41 neighbourhood municipalities of Greater Mexico City.
Column: Mexico City residents have to contend with two of these natural hazards
The Soufrière eruption on St. Vincent has put more than 100,000 people in the Caribbean at risk. A much greater crowd lives in the shadow of two volcanoes, along with a history of earthquakes, in a city on the American continent. Including its suburbs and satellite towns, Mexico City is has an estimated population count approaching 22 million. That’s comparable to urban super-giants like São Paulo, Brazil and Shanghai, China. What’s lacking in São Paulo and Shanghai are volcanoes and frequent earthquakes. Mexico City has got them. Not one, but two active volcanoes loom over its densely populated satellite towns.
Health brigades disinfecting Mexican homes 3 minutes read
By Cristina Sanchez Reyes
Mexico City, Dec 10 (efe-epa).- Outfitted with a protection suit, gloves, facemask, protective glasses, disinfectants, hand sanitizer and a backpack sprayer weighing more than 30 kilograms (66 pounds) when full of disinfectant, Luis Felipe Gutierrez gets ready to work each day with the home sanitation brigades in Mexico City, after surviving Covid-19 himself.
It looks like a long day, since today’s schedule includes sanitizing between four and seven homes in the Xochimilco district, located in the southern part of Greater Mexico City. Most of those homes are being sanitized because people living there had Covid, and some of them did not survive.