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En este video aunque explica a rasgos generales el suceso dirá que le falta el aspecto de que aquí en México el partido en turno tiende a irse por sus intereses, ya en el gobierno en que inicio no fue el mismo en que termino y ese gobierno fue el de mancera qué es recordado por ser muy corrupto y más con el metro 12. El suceso diría que no fue tan grave por ser noche pero si hubiese sido en la mañana seria una tragedia más recordada, por lo que a dia de hoy esa línea es un problema porque según abrirán una extensión con otra línea pero casi nadie habla de esto hoy por hoy
When you mix politics and engineering, the engineers always lose. It would be nice, if just for once, people listened to the people actually hired to do the job.
If they did, you wouldn't hear about it because it wouldn't be on this channel or wouldn't be on the news. I think there's tens of thousands of infrastructure projects out there that are silently being properly designed and maintained and just aren't noteworthy because they function as they should.
Aight as a Mexican living in Mexico City let me clarify that last part and why Claudia Sheimbaum (the now president elect of Mexico, to be sworn into office this Tuesday October 1st) decided to sue the company doing the report; Her party and assosiates have been in power of Mexico City from the start of this century. First with political party "PRD" and then with "Morena" which is now the rulling party. So, they can't shift the blame on anyone else but themselves if the company doing the study finds that maintenance wasn't being done. That's why they needed to dismiss the claim that they didn't do their job asap. And they needed to secure the presidential candidates at that time, giving them a clean record. So the blame was on either Marcelo Ebrard (previous mayor, from PRD party, and briefly considered a candidate) or Claudia Sheimbaum, now president of the country. You can guess already blame was put on the former.
I mean it was his project and he's the one that rushed it so Obviously he should get the brunt of the blame. But the others should also have known better and given more support to the train after the fact to avoid the disaster from happening so they still have *some* responsibility they shouldnt shrug off. It all turbo sucks.
@Uomelette he holds part of the blame but also the current leaders who simply neglected to do the required maintenance. Either they were ignorant about the current state of the rail line, or they willfully ignored its status to prevent losing money. Theres just no excuse available that makes them look good and innocent
Yes, doing anything in Mexico is an exercise in corruption, intrigue, and crass stupidity. But I don't feel sorry for Mexicans--they vote for this crap.
Rationalizing modernity is rationalizing that "citizen" is not a real demographic anymore. There are international government schemes frauding society and then there's the slaves keeping the show going.
@@emilschw8924 Its already all over the US where they have overrun the local population. I had to flee one city where the corruption was out of control. City hall was raided by the FBI due to widespread corruption. Seems to be part of their culture.
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I laughed when I saw it and my boyfriend looked at me because I've been learning spanish... To ask me what it meant. Sir.... It.... Just say it out loud.
Me too. I think it funny that whilst most of the audience don't speak Spanish they're still going to understand it. That makes it much more funny than if he'd put the English equivalent.
Hi. I'm from Mexico. I have been subscribed to this channel for some time now:), I have to confess that I really like the theme and the author's narration. The accident on line 12 of Metro CDMX was something horrible. That night the news documented the problem all night. I can confess that 3 years since that accident, even though the affected section was rebuilt, the line remains the same. It is poorly constructed and unfortunately the issue of politics is in this. It's good that you documented this entire case because it demonstrates the negligence and little interest of a government in building efficient public transportation.:(
Fun fact: Scheinbaum is now president-elect of Mexico. So this happened just before she ran for higher office. Might be the reason for the lawsuit against DNV.
Could well be. My sister lives there and says that so far she's no worse than any of her predecessors, but she hasn't been in office long either. In Mexican politics, it's always a wait and see situation.
she was indirectly responsible, that's why she didn't accepted the investigation's results. Sheimbaum was protecting her friend Serranía, the director of Metro and acting chief of Maintenance. When the Command and Control Center burned because of disrepair, Sheinbaum protected Serranía again. I can only guess that was because the maintenance funds were going to Sheimbaum's campaign.
@@alejandram.c.5064 Well, now we all know how much more attention my sister pays to surfing than to politics! I'm going to have to have a word with the little hippie next time I see her.
I live just 3 stations away from Olivos, where disaster struck, and this just popped into my algorithm lol 😅 What's always shocked me the most is that LITERALLY NO ONE has ever mentioned that line 12 was fully planned and built by ICA-Carso Everyone's blaming politicians but ICA-Carso belongs to Mexico's wealthiest man and one of the world's wealthiest men (Carlos Slim), and absolutely no one has ever been blamed or held accountable on that side 💀💀💀
@@elcatrinc1996El gobierno y políticos en general muy limpios tampoco son. Comenzando con que el deber y trabajo (ridículamente bien pagado por cierto) de ellos es usar su autoridad en pro de la población, no en pro de sí mismos u otros. Si alguien podía ejercer presión a dicha empresa eran ellos y todo el hecho de rechazar el tercer reporte de la gente a la que le pagaron por investigar es sospechoso, más querer demandarlos, eso da la peor de las imágenes.
No Fue planeada por ingenieros del gobierno Fue construida por ica con base en las especificaciones dadas por el gobierno La corrupción no fue de una sola ente. Los políticos no fueron inocentes víctimas. Sabían lo que pasaba y recibieron su mochada
Más sorprendente aún que la alcaldesa que ignoro todos los estudios independientes que advertían del peligro, y por lo tanto persona responsable del incidente, ahora sea la presidente del país. Viva la democracia! 🎉
Bringing a lawsuit against DNV (Det Norske Veritas) is ridiculous. They are one of the Worlds biggest and respected classification societies. If they say something is wrong, then I would believe them before a Mexican (or any nationality, for that matter) politician.
Now that's a staple from her political party, they are never held accountable for any wrongdoing and it probably is an atack from the opposition. (she's now the president btw)
The lawsuit it's only because of the third installment, because it suddenly started to say it was the current mayor's fault, when she didn't even touch the project.
An accident that was quite preventable even from the time of the construction of line 12, especially knowing that almost all the rest of the network is pneumatic
I know someone that worked on that line. Apparently when the project was approved the engineers placed a budget and a timeline (lets say hypothetically 10,000,000 and 8 years to build). They had some of that budget paid upfront and ordered all the materials they needed and hired their own workers. After construction began suddenly it was asked to make it in a shorter timeline (6 years), so that the construction ended right before the current elected lead could step down. If they refused ll the materials and salaries would be out of the companys pocket. Elected officials wanted those bragging rights. But we all know construction doesn't work that way. To make it a shorter timeline the construction company skyrocketed the price, one to lead them away from that idea, and for them to have monetary compensation if something went wrong... So yeeh
I just got back from the Yucatan helping them construct the Tren Maya rail project. I am not one to criticize another country, but suffice it to say their sole objective is to finish construction. Hell with anything else involved- they just want it finished so the contractors can get paid and so forth. Everything that comes after is somebody else's problem. The workers are willing, but they have nothing to work with. Literally. They had no tools, no oil or rags, no jacks, no spare parts for machinery, nothing. But that railroad is getting cut through the raw jungle one way or the other. It was definitely one of the toughest work assignments I ever had for sure. PD will be doing a segment on Tren Maya soon. Bank on it.
I'm a Mexican that is waiting for the first anomalies and other incidents of higher impact to occur in the operation of the Tren Maya and Tren Interurbano Toluca CDMX, before taking any of those trains. Unfortunately, millions of working class people have to take the risk every day. A Línea 12's metro station called Periférico Oriente still frightens me due to the level of noise and vibration when the trains arrive and leave the station built on the elevated viaduct.
@@gabrielcruz6752 I can't get into the technical details here, but I am in the business of the railroad with transit systems my specialty. I will say for certain that noise and vibration is a cry for help and nothing good will come of it if it's ignored.
Especially frustrating to know politics takes precedence over safety and usefulness. The tren maya has no reasons to exist other than to please the wishes of the political leaders
I live in Mexico City and yeah this one was a sad one to watch. Popular opinion here is that all this happen due to the goverment wanting to rush construction and save money as they usually do. Sadly this is a common thing here for the subway network. Thank you for covering this one, you always deliver the best content. Congrats on the 1M!
the complain of Sheinbaun(governor of mexico city at the time and now president) was because she was competing for the presidential election and her stronger competition was Ebrad (the governor that built the linea 12), the first 2 installment sattacked Ebrad (from same political party) and thus she was happy but third one attacked her thus she refused to accepted it. One note, she installed as head of the subway and also as head of maintenance a very close friend of the president (a 2 in 1 position) and cut almost all maintenance, siphoning it to the election. That is why there were several fire/explosions and accident during her term, something that never happened before.
A video about a disaster in MY city? How amazing For real tho, this was a massive mess a couple years ago. Subway line 12, also, kind of ironically, called the "golden" line due to its color scheme, had issues from day one as you mentioned, all because of rushed construction and, unsurprisingly (sadly), corruption inside the Mexican government. Common opinion is that the investigations were right and the collapse happened due to poor maintenance, improper building and good ol' negligence, but the political party currently in charge has a... Tendency of denying all wrongdoings. Anyway, great video dude, I knew it was a matter of time before you'd end up covering this!
Hola! I have family in Mexico, and I don't know CDMX nearly as well as I want to, but I *do* know that the subway system is kind of sketchy compared to other systems I've used, and better avoided if you have other options. And yes, I have heard the tales of corruption, so that doesn't surprise me at all. Overall though, your city is much more fun than mine, so you have that to enjoy!
@@thing_under_the_stairs subway is ok, it was left in disrepair for 18 years since ebrard administration, they just recently are doing much needed work to prevent another colapse in line 9 between stations Pantitlan and Puebla. Mexican engineering is awesome but all buildings needs maintanance, something that was being neglected until just very very recently, only time will tell if Brugada invests or neglects our Metro.
Only had 1 issue using the metro. This was after midnight in Doctores and that was my fault for not getting a taxi. Normal use is safe af, just be careful when twats board the train. Better to get off and wait for another than risk yourself
I don't live in Mexico but I got family and I travel there often, Matamoros area, and yes, they all tell me that it's highly corrupt. Heck, I got family that uses it to their advantage. Since the government is corrupt, my cousin bribes water workers and also the electric company to keep his cost low.
@@28ebdh3udnav Yeah, my sister and family have become fluent in the language of bribery too. Last time I was visiting I got to watch her bribe and flirt her way out of a speeding ticket. When I asked what her husband thinks of this, she shrugged and said that it's better than getting busted.
As a mexican living in Mexico City when this happened, seeing the notification for this video was a reality check for me. Even before using the metro was reliable but kind of a gamble, cause it can randombly stop working in the middle of a tunnel and ruin everyone's day because if one isn't moving, none are. And after, it was terrifying knowing that it could have been anyone riding the metro that day... Or everyday, they HAVE been working on making every line safer but still, we keep hearing that our metro is one of the best in the planet but it took ages for the people working on this issue to even get started. A few years later we got a cablecar in part of the states as public transport and the first thing I heard the people ask was "When do you think this one will fail too and fall"
This is exactly why the Seattle viaduct was taken down. It's terrifying that this could have easily happened there, too. Same with the unsafe "temporary" 520 bridge. Local government going "eh, good enough" and leaving temporary fixes as the permanent solution is aggravatingly common.
It's an unfortunate consequence of having too much power, too little responsibility, and the predatory nature of the construction business. If a government (local or national) commission a scheme which is not going to be completed within a couple of decades there is very little incentive for them to oversee the plans carefully. Conversely if they want it completed quickly, and any problems this may lead to are outside the current electoral cycle, they will just take whatever they can get. Throw in a lot of subcontracting to obfuscate the responsibility trail, and the constructor's natural desire to cut costs thus maximising profit, and every project is a disaster waiting to happen. Just as an example, although no-one got injured as a direct consequence, my former home town's council engaged a major company to build a large housing estate. In the planning proposal it was agreed with local residents that a primary school and community centre would be constructed to serve the area. However this clause was 'forgotten' when the contract was signed. Thus some five years later when people started moving in there was nowhere within easy walking distance for children to go to school or play. The only alternatives were along and across a very busy major road. Who was actually responsible? It's still being argued about two decades and several elections later. The assumption is either certain councillors were very incompetent or they took large backhanders from the builders to look the other way. Braintree, Essex, used to be quite a pleasant town.
lol I use that line every day xP (probably even today, tho) Btw just to add to this great video Marcelo Ebrard (city major from 2006-2012. In this period, the line was built), Carlos Slim (oligarch and responsible for a great part of the construction), M. Ángel Mancera (major from 2012-2018) and of course, Claudia Sheinbaum (major during the disaster) should've been punished. Obviously with criminal penalties, but that didn't happen and impunity was granted. I also will remark that this event should've costed the political careers of these people, but that also didn't happen. Ebrard was close to be president during the MORENA pre-campaigns, Mancera is still there, shady, but still there, and Claudia is going to be our president. I don't understand why their political careers didn't end on 2021. And with Slim, well, oligarch; he has done worst things.
Slim's case is easy enough to figure out, money For everyone else, the party in charge always turns a blind eye on shady stuff on their own. Turns out MORENA was in charge on both state and country during that accident, so no one gets punished, aside a few randoms to pretend things are being done. Long story short, same old shit
Maybe when the train became elevated it got scared and tried to get back into the tunnel LOL. Saying that Mexico is absolutely jam packed with corruption and political interference is one of the greatest understatements in all of history!
As a Mexican form Mexico city i thank you for talking about this topic, we all knew it was because of poor maintenace and corruption, but never saw it with such detail which reveals that from the start this was not built to the international standards and safety requirements, unfortunately this hapens every now and then here, i hope someday things will change, and now that woman you mentioned is our president so the change is gonna take much longer 😅, i hate how politicians risk peoples lives just to complete their promises and when things fail nobody has the fault
Its worth noting that the guy responsible for the construction of this line and the disaster is gonna be our next Secretary of Economy soo... take that as you will
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And the person who avoided dealing with the tragedy is now president.
I've only traveled using the line 12 once, the train itself was ok, but during the trip you can tell how bad it actually is by how the train moves on sharp curves and high pitched rail noises
Mexico City is subject to continuous subsidence, mainly due to being built on a former lake and groundwater extraction. I'm surprised that this was not mentioned. What engineering measures were taken to minimise problems from this?
Not all of the city is built on a former lake. Precisely the part of line 12 that collapsed is on a part of the city that is solid ground that was never a lake. So in this case, and just this case, the fact that most of Mexico City is built atop a former lake is not that relevant.
In Cologne, there is also an elevated railway line that has been causing problems recently and currently. Among them, as in this case, are defects in the construction.
I lol'd when that came out seemingly out of nowhere, should've expected it hah. but if I were to be pedantic, I'd say the correct slang should've been "huevos" or "bolas"/"pelotas", depending on the region of Mexico you ask.
As soon as i saw the yellow strip on the train, i knew this had to be the Mexico City Gold Line... Heard the "what" as a GDN, now getting to hear about the "why"
Mexican guy right here, love your content, I remember watching the news on tv as it happened, I worked around that place but it was my day off, truly horrible stuff
Thank you for talking about this, I use to use this metro line back when I used to live in Mexico city and never thought something like this would happen. I feel sorry for all the victims of this tragic accident.
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Eventually gravity always wins, sounds like something my Grandparents would have told me. Gotta love our elders wisdom. At least until we find *_we_* are the ones saying it! 😂
Fun Fact: Carlos Slim bought the entirety of CompUSA when it was struggling and closed it down, putting something like 15k employees out of work. When he bought the company, he told investors he intended to revitalize it. Less than six months later, all locations across the US were out of business.
I wasn't in the city when this happened, but my friend was, and I was just laying on my bed when my friend messaged me about the collapse and I was super scared because that IS the train he took for getting home.
Mexico city: "We'll get an indipendant investigator!" Also Mexico city: "we are at fault? How dare you! We'll sue you!" Are we sure this ismexico and not the usa?
Two different criteria. Expert: That will fall apart. Corrupt politician/owner: Nah it'll be fine. That's 'warning ignored'. [Chunks fall off] Corrupt politician/owner: Imma pretend I didn't see that. That's 'warning signs ignored'.
I take it that 'warning signs' are things an expert would and should notice - and 'warnings ignored' is when warnings said by the said experts go ignored.
I would have thought more literally and said "warning signs" are the signs put up around a workplace warning people of dangers. Which are then ignored by the staff.
🤣🤣🤣 It didn't go unnoticed that because this is in Mexico, your normal gag where someone in the situation says "Balls!" has become "Testiculos!" 🤣🤣🤣 Bravo! 👏👏👏
And then Mr. Ebrard disappeared for some time, then he was awarded with a new charge in the Mexican Government as the new Secretary for Foreign Affairs and now as a Senator. And MS, Sheinbaum is now the elected president for Mexico, funny how it works huh...
Mark my words, this will happen again at the new tren Maya. Gov was told it was NOT safe to do it by several private firms they hired to evaluate the viability of it's construction. It was constructed anyways.
The subway golden line was like a golden child, pampered in every meaningless way, and when reality slaped back, as the golden child, the golden line just broked down and crumbled. Also as a native of Mexico city I can confirm that of course we say “testículos” all the time. 😂
Believe me Plainly Difficult, the whole shenanigans of L12 have been surrounded on politics rather than engineering. The same year it collapsed, there was a fire on PCC (Puesto Central de Comando or metro’s brain) and rather than say “Oh hey, I’m this happened because X Y Z problems” all that came out the mayor’s office was “the opposition is making this political”; a year prior a L1 crash also happened and 2 years later a crash on L3 happened too, very sad as lots of people lost faith on the Metro System and we all expected it to crash when we’re using it 😢
Thank you very much, you were clear and objective in the description of the case. And the people of Mexico know very well how the political, economic and justice system works (you can read it in the comments). What I think is confusing for the world and for many Mexicans is to believe that Mexico is a sovereign and democratic republic, but sadly it has never been. By the way, speaking of infrastructural issues of the capital and corruption of rulers, prosecutors, judges and businessmen, Mexico City has the experience of 2 deadly earthquakes that occurred on September 19 (in the national month, it is no coincidence), in 1985 and 2017, which left an undetermined number of deaths and psychological, emotional and economic damage to the population, without justice having been delivered to date. And therefore, without the guarantee that it will not happen again :(
12:15 is something that I always used to tell my father before he passed. For being a man that spent decades in commercial roofing he sure didn't think gravity was a big deal late in his life but it was. First with lymphedema in his legs made worse by not elevating them properly when he sat & slept. And second with what ultimately what killed him was a fall where he broke his spine. In the end gravity won!
I remember watching the news just minutes after this happened. It was really shocking for me, and I remember my mom leaving the news on until we went to bed, when people were still on sitek trying to find family members and rescue was just starting. Never used that section of the line, but it doesn't inspire confidence for the extension that is planned for sometime this decade.
When I lived there, lines 12 opened up and we used it all the time. When this happened it really hit me. I didn’t go that far on the line every day but once a week.
Sleepers are also called railroad ties. The stud welding can use ceramic ferrules that should be chipped off so the weld can be inspected. When we did this we had to stick weld with 7018 if the original process looked less than great.
I know you haven't done a video on anything dealing with nuclear energy or radioactivity recently but this is week 4 of me asking for a full video on Eben Byers. Please consider it and thank you for all of your amazing content!
Back in 2015 I was in Mexico City as a tourist. After a night at plaza Garibaldi I took a cab back to my airbanb. As I was talking with the cab driver, he explicitly warned me not to ride metro line 12. He warned me Marcelo Ebrard’s government had skimmed off the materials and it wasn’t safely constructed. At the time I didn’t think much of it because metro line 12 doesn’t travel anywhere a tourist would really want to go to. Neither where I picked up the cab or got dropped off were anywhere near metro 12. Sure enough that taxi driver was correct.
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It re-opened in January so you you might get to do a second vid on it in a few years :D
It would be good if you could look into the Granville Train Disaster in Sydney Australia. Really find your videos so interesting.
En este video aunque explica a rasgos generales el suceso dirá que le falta el aspecto de que aquí en México el partido en turno tiende a irse por sus intereses, ya en el gobierno en que inicio no fue el mismo en que termino y ese gobierno fue el de mancera qué es recordado por ser muy corrupto y más con el metro 12.
El suceso diría que no fue tan grave por ser noche pero si hubiese sido en la mañana seria una tragedia más recordada, por lo que a dia de hoy esa línea es un problema porque según abrirán una extensión con otra línea pero casi nadie habla de esto hoy por hoy
When you mix politics and engineering, the engineers always lose. It would be nice, if just for once, people listened to the people actually hired to do the job.
lol! Then what would us Engineers have to moan about?
@@RaglansElectricBaboon Pi. All engineers hate pi. Why do you think so many creations only have straight lines?
@@Scudboy17as an engineer, I agree Pi sucks, it's a royal pain in the behind.
@@jefferyindorf699 its just so irrational!
If they did, you wouldn't hear about it because it wouldn't be on this channel or wouldn't be on the news. I think there's tens of thousands of infrastructure projects out there that are silently being properly designed and maintained and just aren't noteworthy because they function as they should.
Government to DNV: You're hired to find the cause! Also, find a cause we like or we'll sue you.
Threatening the "Dread Norse Vikings" is never a good idea. Had to deal with these guys during ISO audits...they're relentless!
And now Mayor Sheinbaum is the president of Mexico.
The governor of Mexico city in this case is the current president of Mexico (country) 😂
Aight as a Mexican living in Mexico City let me clarify that last part and why Claudia Sheimbaum (the now president elect of Mexico, to be sworn into office this Tuesday October 1st) decided to sue the company doing the report; Her party and assosiates have been in power of Mexico City from the start of this century. First with political party "PRD" and then with "Morena" which is now the rulling party. So, they can't shift the blame on anyone else but themselves if the company doing the study finds that maintenance wasn't being done. That's why they needed to dismiss the claim that they didn't do their job asap. And they needed to secure the presidential candidates at that time, giving them a clean record. So the blame was on either Marcelo Ebrard (previous mayor, from PRD party, and briefly considered a candidate) or Claudia Sheimbaum, now president of the country. You can guess already blame was put on the former.
I mean it was his project and he's the one that rushed it so Obviously he should get the brunt of the blame.
But the others should also have known better and given more support to the train after the fact to avoid the disaster from happening so they still have *some* responsibility they shouldnt shrug off. It all turbo sucks.
@Uomelette he holds part of the blame but also the current leaders who simply neglected to do the required maintenance. Either they were ignorant about the current state of the rail line, or they willfully ignored its status to prevent losing money. Theres just no excuse available that makes them look good and innocent
Unfortunately with this being Mexico, you know corruption is going to be involved. It just seems like the citizens can never catch a break
Soon to come to South Africa with its corruptocracy as well... 😢
Yes, doing anything in Mexico is an exercise in corruption, intrigue, and crass stupidity. But I don't feel sorry for Mexicans--they vote for this crap.
Rationalizing modernity is rationalizing that "citizen" is not a real demographic anymore. There are international government schemes frauding society and then there's the slaves keeping the show going.
@@emilschw8924 Its already all over the US where they have overrun the local population. I had to flee one city where the corruption was out of control. City hall was raided by the FBI due to widespread corruption. Seems to be part of their culture.
Kinda gettin' that way pretty much everywhere, not just the "developing" world...
Congrats on 1M man!
thank you
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The Spanish balls got me.
My sister claimed the same thing when I became an uncle!
There must always be balls!
I laughed when I saw it and my boyfriend looked at me because I've been learning spanish... To ask me what it meant. Sir.... It.... Just say it out loud.
Bollas
Made me smile. Don't know why, just did.
Video: testiculos
Me: dies of laughter.
Same
I came to the comments just to make sure I wasn’t the only one that noticed that! 😂
Found it at 3:55
Me too. I think it funny that whilst most of the audience don't speak Spanish they're still going to understand it. That makes it much more funny than if he'd put the English equivalent.
Hi. I'm from Mexico. I have been subscribed to this channel for some time now:), I have to confess that I really like the theme and the author's narration. The accident on line 12 of Metro CDMX was something horrible. That night the news documented the problem all night. I can confess that 3 years since that accident, even though the affected section was rebuilt, the line remains the same. It is poorly constructed and unfortunately the issue of politics is in this. It's good that you documented this entire case because it demonstrates the negligence and little interest of a government in building efficient public transportation.:(
Infrastructure: Do it right the first time, or do it right the second time.
For triple the cost.
And a side of lawsuits...
You mean do it wrong the first time then implement bandaid fixes for the next 50 years
Fun fact: Scheinbaum is now president-elect of Mexico. So this happened just before she ran for higher office. Might be the reason for the lawsuit against DNV.
Could well be. My sister lives there and says that so far she's no worse than any of her predecessors, but she hasn't been in office long either. In Mexican politics, it's always a wait and see situation.
I don't trust her
@@thing_under_the_stairs She hasn't been in office, period. AMLO is still president for two more days.
she was indirectly responsible, that's why she didn't accepted the investigation's results. Sheimbaum was protecting her friend Serranía, the director of Metro and acting chief of Maintenance. When the Command and Control Center burned because of disrepair, Sheinbaum protected Serranía again. I can only guess that was because the maintenance funds were going to Sheimbaum's campaign.
@@alejandram.c.5064 Well, now we all know how much more attention my sister pays to surfing than to politics! I'm going to have to have a word with the little hippie next time I see her.
I live just 3 stations away from Olivos, where disaster struck, and this just popped into my algorithm lol 😅
What's always shocked me the most is that LITERALLY NO ONE has ever mentioned that line 12 was fully planned and built by ICA-Carso
Everyone's blaming politicians but ICA-Carso belongs to Mexico's wealthiest man and one of the world's wealthiest men (Carlos Slim), and absolutely no one has ever been blamed or held accountable on that side 💀💀💀
A la gente le gusta echarle la culpa a la cara más pública del país en vez de la gente cuyo trabajo era mantener el metro en buen estado
@@elcatrinc1996El gobierno y políticos en general muy limpios tampoco son. Comenzando con que el deber y trabajo (ridículamente bien pagado por cierto) de ellos es usar su autoridad en pro de la población, no en pro de sí mismos u otros.
Si alguien podía ejercer presión a dicha empresa eran ellos y todo el hecho de rechazar el tercer reporte de la gente a la que le pagaron por investigar es sospechoso, más querer demandarlos, eso da la peor de las imágenes.
No
Fue planeada por ingenieros del gobierno
Fue construida por ica con base en las especificaciones dadas por el gobierno
La corrupción no fue de una sola ente. Los políticos no fueron inocentes víctimas. Sabían lo que pasaba y recibieron su mochada
Más sorprendente aún que la alcaldesa que ignoro todos los estudios independientes que advertían del peligro, y por lo tanto persona responsable del incidente, ahora sea la presidente del país.
Viva la democracia! 🎉
@@cuthuluh.p.l.1062Más sorprendente que digas mentiras tan fácilmente y sin vergüenza.
"Ah you found governmental oversight was a problem, I reject your reality and substitute my own." (Paraphrased and added too, but this isn't my own. )
That's a brilliant use of Adam Savage's quote.
@@RadioactiveSherbet *Dr Who
@@JohannesJ7539 Was Adam Savage quoting Dr. Who?
@@RadioactiveSherbet yeah
Underground, overground, wandering free... the wombles of wimballsup common are we...
Bringing a lawsuit against DNV (Det Norske Veritas) is ridiculous. They are one of the Worlds biggest and respected classification societies. If they say something is wrong, then I would believe them before a Mexican (or any nationality, for that matter) politician.
Now that's a staple from her political party, they are never held accountable for any wrongdoing and it probably is an atack from the opposition. (she's now the president btw)
Just the current president trying to save her and her friends reputations in the eyes of their fanatical voters
Skål på den!
The lawsuit it's only because of the third installment, because it suddenly started to say it was the current mayor's fault, when she didn't even touch the project.
I see rail accident, I click. Simple as
Happy days
Amen to that
An accident that was quite preventable even from the time of the construction of line 12, especially knowing that almost all the rest of the network is pneumatic
I know someone that worked on that line. Apparently when the project was approved the engineers placed a budget and a timeline (lets say hypothetically 10,000,000 and 8 years to build). They had some of that budget paid upfront and ordered all the materials they needed and hired their own workers. After construction began suddenly it was asked to make it in a shorter timeline (6 years), so that the construction ended right before the current elected lead could step down. If they refused ll the materials and salaries would be out of the companys pocket. Elected officials wanted those bragging rights. But we all know construction doesn't work that way. To make it a shorter timeline the construction company skyrocketed the price, one to lead them away from that idea, and for them to have monetary compensation if something went wrong...
So yeeh
I just got back from the Yucatan helping them construct the Tren Maya rail project. I am not one to criticize another country, but suffice it to say their sole objective is to finish construction. Hell with anything else involved- they just want it finished so the contractors can get paid and so forth. Everything that comes after is somebody else's problem. The workers are willing, but they have nothing to work with. Literally. They had no tools, no oil or rags, no jacks, no spare parts for machinery, nothing. But that railroad is getting cut through the raw jungle one way or the other. It was definitely one of the toughest work assignments I ever had for sure.
PD will be doing a segment on Tren Maya soon. Bank on it.
How many pesos you betting?
I'm a Mexican that is waiting for the first anomalies and other incidents of higher impact to occur in the operation of the Tren Maya and Tren Interurbano Toluca CDMX, before taking any of those trains.
Unfortunately, millions of working class people have to take the risk every day.
A Línea 12's metro station called Periférico Oriente still frightens me due to the level of noise and vibration when the trains arrive and leave the station built on the elevated viaduct.
@@gabrielcruz6752 I can't get into the technical details here, but I am in the business of the railroad with transit systems my specialty. I will say for certain that noise and vibration is a cry for help and nothing good will come of it if it's ignored.
Commenting so that i can access this exact comments years down the line when the inevitable happens.
Especially frustrating to know politics takes precedence over safety and usefulness. The tren maya has no reasons to exist other than to please the wishes of the political leaders
I live in Mexico City and yeah this one was a sad one to watch. Popular opinion here is that all this happen due to the goverment wanting to rush construction and save money as they usually do. Sadly this is a common thing here for the subway network.
Thank you for covering this one, you always deliver the best content. Congrats on the 1M!
the complain of Sheinbaun(governor of mexico city at the time and now president) was because she was competing for the presidential election and her stronger competition was Ebrad (the governor that built the linea 12), the first 2 installment sattacked Ebrad (from same political party) and thus she was happy but third one attacked her thus she refused to accepted it. One note, she installed as head of the subway and also as head of maintenance a very close friend of the president (a 2 in 1 position) and cut almost all maintenance, siphoning it to the election. That is why there were several fire/explosions and accident during her term, something that never happened before.
A video about a disaster in MY city? How amazing
For real tho, this was a massive mess a couple years ago. Subway line 12, also, kind of ironically, called the "golden" line due to its color scheme, had issues from day one as you mentioned, all because of rushed construction and, unsurprisingly (sadly), corruption inside the Mexican government.
Common opinion is that the investigations were right and the collapse happened due to poor maintenance, improper building and good ol' negligence, but the political party currently in charge has a... Tendency of denying all wrongdoings.
Anyway, great video dude, I knew it was a matter of time before you'd end up covering this!
Hola!
I have family in Mexico, and I don't know CDMX nearly as well as I want to, but I *do* know that the subway system is kind of sketchy compared to other systems I've used, and better avoided if you have other options.
And yes, I have heard the tales of corruption, so that doesn't surprise me at all.
Overall though, your city is much more fun than mine, so you have that to enjoy!
@@thing_under_the_stairs subway is ok, it was left in disrepair for 18 years since ebrard administration, they just recently are doing much needed work to prevent another colapse in line 9 between stations Pantitlan and Puebla.
Mexican engineering is awesome but all buildings needs maintanance, something that was being neglected until just very very recently, only time will tell if Brugada invests or neglects our Metro.
Only had 1 issue using the metro. This was after midnight in Doctores and that was my fault for not getting a taxi.
Normal use is safe af, just be careful when twats board the train. Better to get off and wait for another than risk yourself
I don't live in Mexico but I got family and I travel there often, Matamoros area, and yes, they all tell me that it's highly corrupt. Heck, I got family that uses it to their advantage. Since the government is corrupt, my cousin bribes water workers and also the electric company to keep his cost low.
@@28ebdh3udnav Yeah, my sister and family have become fluent in the language of bribery too. Last time I was visiting I got to watch her bribe and flirt her way out of a speeding ticket. When I asked what her husband thinks of this, she shrugged and said that it's better than getting busted.
Corruption? In Mexico? Nah! Couldn't possibly be...
what is bakshish in spanish? 😆
Yawn. I wish I could travel to 2060 so I could watch the documentaries on how capitalist corruption crashed the global social economy
Your winnings sir...😉
@@Tal-q3r In Mexico it's "mordita" and probably a few other names that I just don't know.
@@sootikins 🤔
I always laugh when someone says "maintenance issue" when its usually a lack of maintenance being the issue
As a mexican living in Mexico City when this happened, seeing the notification for this video was a reality check for me.
Even before using the metro was reliable but kind of a gamble, cause it can randombly stop working in the middle of a tunnel and ruin everyone's day because if one isn't moving, none are.
And after, it was terrifying knowing that it could have been anyone riding the metro that day... Or everyday, they HAVE been working on making every line safer but still, we keep hearing that our metro is one of the best in the planet but it took ages for the people working on this issue to even get started.
A few years later we got a cablecar in part of the states as public transport and the first thing I heard the people ask was "When do you think this one will fail too and fall"
This is exactly why the Seattle viaduct was taken down. It's terrifying that this could have easily happened there, too. Same with the unsafe "temporary" 520 bridge. Local government going "eh, good enough" and leaving temporary fixes as the permanent solution is aggravatingly common.
It's an unfortunate consequence of having too much power, too little responsibility, and the predatory nature of the construction business. If a government (local or national) commission a scheme which is not going to be completed within a couple of decades there is very little incentive for them to oversee the plans carefully. Conversely if they want it completed quickly, and any problems this may lead to are outside the current electoral cycle, they will just take whatever they can get. Throw in a lot of subcontracting to obfuscate the responsibility trail, and the constructor's natural desire to cut costs thus maximising profit, and every project is a disaster waiting to happen. Just as an example, although no-one got injured as a direct consequence, my former home town's council engaged a major company to build a large housing estate. In the planning proposal it was agreed with local residents that a primary school and community centre would be constructed to serve the area. However this clause was 'forgotten' when the contract was signed. Thus some five years later when people started moving in there was nowhere within easy walking distance for children to go to school or play. The only alternatives were along and across a very busy major road. Who was actually responsible? It's still being argued about two decades and several elections later. The assumption is either certain councillors were very incompetent or they took large backhanders from the builders to look the other way. Braintree, Essex, used to be quite a pleasant town.
It's just not a proper Saturday morning here in the midwest USA until the episode of Plainly Difficult is on!
Adult cartoons.
lol I use that line every day xP (probably even today, tho)
Btw just to add to this great video Marcelo Ebrard (city major from 2006-2012. In this period, the line was built), Carlos Slim (oligarch and responsible for a great part of the construction), M. Ángel Mancera (major from 2012-2018) and of course, Claudia Sheinbaum (major during the disaster) should've been punished. Obviously with criminal penalties, but that didn't happen and impunity was granted. I also will remark that this event should've costed the political careers of these people, but that also didn't happen. Ebrard was close to be president during the MORENA pre-campaigns, Mancera is still there, shady, but still there, and Claudia is going to be our president. I don't understand why their political careers didn't end on 2021. And with Slim, well, oligarch; he has done worst things.
Carlos Slim is also the patron of Mexican F1 driver Sergio Perez. Who somehow still has a drive.
Slim's case is easy enough to figure out, money
For everyone else, the party in charge always turns a blind eye on shady stuff on their own. Turns out MORENA was in charge on both state and country during that accident, so no one gets punished, aside a few randoms to pretend things are being done.
Long story short, same old shit
Maybe when the train became elevated it got scared and tried to get back into the tunnel LOL. Saying that Mexico is absolutely jam packed with corruption and political interference is one of the greatest understatements in all of history!
As a Mexican form Mexico city i thank you for talking about this topic, we all knew it was because of poor maintenace and corruption, but never saw it with such detail which reveals that from the start this was not built to the international standards and safety requirements, unfortunately this hapens every now and then here, i hope someday things will change, and now that woman you mentioned is our president so the change is gonna take much longer 😅, i hate how politicians risk peoples lives just to complete their promises and when things fail nobody has the fault
Its worth noting that the guy responsible for the construction of this line and the disaster is gonna be our next Secretary of Economy soo... take that as you will
And the person who avoided dealing with the tragedy is now president.
10:51 Claudia Sheinbaum is the President-Elect of Mexico. She takes office 3 days from now (October 01, 2024.)
I didn't realize that. Nothing about her election seemed off, nor is it remotely possible that she is incredibly corrupt. 😅
sad day for mexico
La presidenta L12
@@alfrreddIndeed, I declare as a citizen.
@@Zirkornridículo
Hello from Hurricane ravaged Upstate SC, finally started getting enough cell phone reception to watch YT vids at last and I'm enjoying with this video
Same here in Florida. Started getting just enough data to watch some videos 👍
You should cover the 1955 Le Mans disaster.
YES!
Oh no
the crash that changed Motor sport for ever.
Yes!
Yes! 😰
Ah, Mexico. Land of "la mordida" (the bite or a bribe). I lived in Mexico for a number of years, this video is not a surprise to me.
I've only traveled using the line 12 once, the train itself was ok, but during the trip you can tell how bad it actually is by how the train moves on sharp curves and high pitched rail noises
Mexico City is subject to continuous subsidence, mainly due to being built on a former lake and groundwater extraction.
I'm surprised that this was not mentioned.
What engineering measures were taken to minimise problems from this?
None. Because Mexico. Also, by law it should have had earthquake protection. It didn't either. Because Mexico.
@@Edhelistar So it basically sums up to, "Why does Mexico have x problem? Because Mexico." XD
@@SupersuMC No joke, most of Mexico's problems are self inflicted. We're the falling off a bicycle meme in coutry form.
Not all of the city is built on a former lake. Precisely the part of line 12 that collapsed is on a part of the city that is solid ground that was never a lake. So in this case, and just this case, the fact that most of Mexico City is built atop a former lake is not that relevant.
In Cologne, there is also an elevated railway line that has been causing problems recently and currently. Among them, as in this case, are defects in the construction.
My weekly dose of disaster is here! Have a great weekend, John and everyone!
It's probably not catastrophic enough for your channel, but when that tram bridge in Dresden collapsed like 1 or 2 weeks ago, i thought of you ^^
Yep, thought of that as well (I live in Dresden).
Could have ended very similar if it would have broken down minutes earlier
3:57 'testiculos' made me snort: it was so unexpectedly funny
TIL I learn the Spanish word for “Balls!”.
We actually use "bolas" for balls instead of "testículos" which means literally testicl es
@@samueldavila2156still wonderful
Balls in every language are one of the things I love about these videos.
I lol'd when that came out seemingly out of nowhere, should've expected it hah.
but if I were to be pedantic, I'd say the correct slang should've been "huevos" or "bolas"/"pelotas", depending on the region of Mexico you ask.
Wasn't it cojones?
Thank you so much for covering this event. It's of vital importance the world knows about this 😢
Another plain(ly) straightfward and informative video, that shouldn't be ... difficult for anyone to see!
Awesome as always!
It’s nice seeing John finally looking into this subject, since is like the perfect Plainly Difficult video.
As soon as i saw the yellow strip on the train, i knew this had to be the Mexico City Gold Line... Heard the "what" as a GDN, now getting to hear about the "why"
Mexican guy right here, love your content, I remember watching the news on tv as it happened, I worked around that place but it was my day off, truly horrible stuff
Thank you for talking about this, I use to use this metro line back when I used to live in Mexico city and never thought something like this would happen. I feel sorry for all the victims of this tragic accident.
Thanks!
Thank you
That is a nice train, Orange and Yellow and looking very smart. We are going to have to look at doing a couple of those in Lego.
And Tuesday, former mayor Claudia Sheinbaum will be sworn in as Mexico's new president.
Congrats. Love your videos and narration. Keep to the good work. Make sure to take care of yourself along the way. Your viewers will wait if you need time to rest ever. Here's to another million!
Eventually gravity always wins, sounds like something my Grandparents would have told me. Gotta love our elders wisdom. At least until we find *_we_* are the ones saying it! 😂
Congrats on the 1 million! Enjoy
Next time say cojones which means the same
Fascinating they engaged DNV, as this would make hiding corruption impossible…
This reminds me of the Monorail episode of the Simpsons
Another bedtime story via Plainly Difficult! Thanks for everything you do!
Fun Fact: Carlos Slim bought the entirety of CompUSA when it was struggling and closed it down, putting something like 15k employees out of work. When he bought the company, he told investors he intended to revitalize it. Less than six months later, all locations across the US were out of business.
Carlos wanted their call centers.
The call centers of compUSA still exist with the name Telvista.
'Mixed Womble Assortment' was the highlight of my day - thanks for your continuing disaster channel.
I wasn't in the city when this happened, but my friend was, and I was just laying on my bed when my friend messaged me about the collapse and I was super scared because that IS the train he took for getting home.
Mexico city: "We'll get an indipendant investigator!"
Also Mexico city: "we are at fault? How dare you! We'll sue you!"
Are we sure this ismexico and not the usa?
I'm a CDMX dueller. Your joke of "testículos" around 4:00 Made My day. Great video.
Thank you John. I will say what you refrained from: proverbial Mexican politician corruption.
congrats to my favorite channel! 1 million is a fantastic and deserved achievement
Testiculos!
The closest to Bollocks that Mr P.Difficult could find 😉
That was bad and easy to prevent. As you said I don't think I have ever seen the Bingo card that full. Thanks for posting....
‘Womble Assortment’ 😂😂
Just a quick question: what is the difference between “warnings ignored” and “warning signs ignored” on the bingo card? it seems a little overlapping…
Two different criteria.
Expert: That will fall apart.
Corrupt politician/owner: Nah it'll be fine.
That's 'warning ignored'.
[Chunks fall off]
Corrupt politician/owner: Imma pretend I didn't see that.
That's 'warning signs ignored'.
The first is explicitly stated, and on public record; the second is observed phenomena.
I take it that 'warning signs' are things an expert would and should notice - and 'warnings ignored' is when warnings said by the said experts go ignored.
I would have thought more literally and said "warning signs" are the signs put up around a workplace warning people of dangers. Which are then ignored by the staff.
The line was so wrong because the Safety Director they hired, long-sleeved green shirt and orange vest, was not qualified for his work.
🤣🤣🤣 It didn't go unnoticed that because this is in Mexico, your normal gag where someone in the situation says "Balls!" has become "Testiculos!" 🤣🤣🤣
Bravo! 👏👏👏
never caught one of these so early
enjoy it!
And then Mr. Ebrard disappeared for some time, then he was awarded with a new charge in the Mexican Government as the new Secretary for Foreign Affairs and now as a Senator.
And MS, Sheinbaum is now the elected president for Mexico, funny how it works huh...
Chayooooterooo
Mark my words, this will happen again at the new tren Maya. Gov was told it was NOT safe to do it by several private firms they hired to evaluate the viability of it's construction. It was constructed anyways.
Congrats on 1M subs, John! Well deserved 👏🎉
Poor quality construction, maintenance, and corruption in Mexico? I'm shocked, truly shocked.
12:15 Everytime I drop something I say: "Ah, my old enemy: Gravity!"
I just go with "Balls!" 😂
The subway golden line was like a golden child, pampered in every meaningless way, and when reality slaped back, as the golden child, the golden line just broked down and crumbled.
Also as a native of Mexico city I can confirm that of course we say “testículos” all the time. 😂
Believe me Plainly Difficult, the whole shenanigans of L12 have been surrounded on politics rather than engineering.
The same year it collapsed, there was a fire on PCC (Puesto Central de Comando or metro’s brain) and rather than say “Oh hey, I’m this happened because X Y Z problems” all that came out the mayor’s office was “the opposition is making this political”; a year prior a L1 crash also happened and 2 years later a crash on L3 happened too, very sad as lots of people lost faith on the Metro System and we all expected it to crash when we’re using it 😢
Great video! thank you for making the embedded ad easy to skip over! I hate ads! lol
Thank you very much, you were clear and objective in the description of the case. And the people of Mexico know very well how the political, economic and justice system works (you can read it in the comments). What I think is confusing for the world and for many Mexicans is to believe that Mexico is a sovereign and democratic republic, but sadly it has never been. By the way, speaking of infrastructural issues of the capital and corruption of rulers, prosecutors, judges and businessmen, Mexico City has the experience of 2 deadly earthquakes that occurred on September 19 (in the national month, it is no coincidence), in 1985 and 2017, which left an undetermined number of deaths and psychological, emotional and economic damage to the population, without justice having been delivered to date. And therefore, without the guarantee that it will not happen again :(
12:15 is something that I always used to tell my father before he passed. For being a man that spent decades in commercial roofing he sure didn't think gravity was a big deal late in his life but it was. First with lymphedema in his legs made worse by not elevating them properly when he sat & slept. And second with what ultimately what killed him was a fall where he broke his spine. In the end gravity won!
Gravity is a hurtful bastard.
I remember watching the news just minutes after this happened. It was really shocking for me, and I remember my mom leaving the news on until we went to bed, when people were still on sitek trying to find family members and rescue was just starting.
Never used that section of the line, but it doesn't inspire confidence for the extension that is planned for sometime this decade.
When I lived there, lines 12 opened up and we used it all the time. When this happened it really hit me. I didn’t go that far on the line every day but once a week.
Love the description of the metro as a 'Womble' arrangement... underground, overground...
Good stuff
Thank you
"Gravity always wins" is a great adage.
BALLS!!
I love your videos and narration! I only wish your videos were longer, maybe you could post a compilation of your 4-5 most popular videos?
absolutely nothing could have prepared me for 3:56 LMAO, caught me completely off guard
And the responsible for all this was awarded with the country's presidency.
Can we download/buy the bingo card somewhere?
Take a screenshot. Print it.
Pretty sure he linked to it back when he first started including it. Check back over the older videos to find the first appearance of it.
Sleepers are also called railroad ties. The stud welding can use ceramic ferrules that should be chipped off so the weld can be inspected. When we did this we had to stick weld with 7018 if the original process looked less than great.
I know you haven't done a video on anything dealing with nuclear energy or radioactivity recently but this is week 4 of me asking for a full video on Eben Byers. Please consider it and thank you for all of your amazing content!
I feel like political pressure needs a spot on the bingo card
"Eventually, gravity always wins."
The more I think about this statement, the deeper it becomes, in all ways.
You could consider covering the Nicoll Highway collapse in Singapore, 2004. Also involves both trains and structural failure.
I was just thinking about this crash a couple of days ago until you made this. Thanks 👍
Back in 2015 I was in Mexico City as a tourist. After a night at plaza Garibaldi I took a cab back to my airbanb. As I was talking with the cab driver, he explicitly warned me not to ride metro line 12. He warned me Marcelo Ebrard’s government had skimmed off the materials and it wasn’t safely constructed. At the time I didn’t think much of it because metro line 12 doesn’t travel anywhere a tourist would really want to go to. Neither where I picked up the cab or got dropped off were anywhere near metro 12. Sure enough that taxi driver was correct.
This was posted at the exact same time as RMTransit's video titled "How Elevated Rail Makes Cities Better"
The irony.
Hes from Canada so elevated rail there is actually built competently (Montreals REM, Vancouver SkyTrain)
"testiculos" had me rolling. I actually needed a good belly-laugh this AM, thank you.
How about doing a video about "The Byford Dolphin Incident".
Look into it a bit, you won't be disappointed...