The Mexico City

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system ( es, Red de Trolebuses de la Ciudad de México ) serves

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

, the

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of Mexico, and is operated by

Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos de la Ciudad de México (STE) ( Spanish for Electric Transport Service of Mexico City) is a public transport agency responsible for the operation of all trolleybus and light rail services in Mexico City. As ...

. The system opened on 9 March 1951.''Trolleybus Magazine'' No. 235 (January–February 2001), p. 14. National Trolleybus Assn. (UK). .Morrison, Allen (2010; updated 2014)
The Trolleybuses of Latin America in 2014.
Retrieved 24 December 2014. As of mid-2014, the system had 8 lines and the operable fleet included around 360 trolleybuses.''Trolleybus Magazine'' No. 318 (November–December 2014), p. 159. National Trolleybus Assn. (UK). . The total number of trolleybuses scheduled in service in peak periods was 290 in late 2012, but was 264 in mid-2014. Until 2019, the lines were identified with the following letters: A, CP, D, G, I, K, LL and S. As of 2018, the fare is

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$4.00 (

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0.18, or US$ 0.21). The nine lines currently in operation are designated by numbers.

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Lines 1 to 7 are

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s, of which 3, 4, and 7 are tangential routes, not reaching the city centre and generally oriented perpendicular to

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s ("crosstown" route in

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). Line 9 is a short tangential route that is not "cross-city". Line 8 is a "feeder" route, feeding the city's metro system at Politécnico station and also line 1. On October 29, 2022, line 10 was inaugurated from

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to Acahualtepec. From Acahualtepec to

Metro Santa Marta Santa Marta (sometimes spelled Santa Martha) is a station along Line A of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the ''Colonia Ermita Zaragoza'' neighborhood of the Iztapalapa borough in Mexico City. The logo of the station depicts a silhou ...

is under construction.

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1951 establishments in Mexico

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