During the six -year term of Adolfo López Mateos, the regent Ernesto P. Uruchurtu Asked María Félix His decision to live in Paris and not in Mexico City, if he loved it as much as he presumed. She, proud as always, said that the country's capital was not cosmopolitan since not even There was a meter. This turned on the alarms and the idea of creating one was raised thanks to the suggestion of a high category actress as it was «La Doña».
However, the permit was denied by the cost that it implied and was even the government of Gustavo Díaz Ordaz that the own María Félix He intervened to create the project, it was so the involvement of the actress who lent her home in Hegel 610 to make the planning boards.
The CDMX subway was a gift for María Félix.Mondadori Portfolio / Getty Images.
Why do a meter in the CDMX?
Simple. María Félix He always believed that Mexico was a country rich in many ways, but modernity was not yet and that, to tell the truth it was a limiting for business and tourism itself. Thus, being a resident and lover of Paris, he proposed to create a meter that could cross the city or at least, that it could be useful for the inhabitants. With a meter They could easily move, get to destinations that not, either, expedite city traffic.
In fact, María Félix's concern He was genuine and of all the inhabitants of the city, since every time the overpopulation monopolized spaces and mobility is part of the progress of a country. So, Alex Berger, the French banker husband of Maryhe asked if his interest in the progress of Mexico was genuine, to which the actress replied that it was what most longed for at that time, because she wanted to change the look from abroad towards the Republic and show another face, the best.
María Félix Account that «The first idea of doing The Mexico Metro was Alex Bergermy husband and he was the soul of the project until the end and told me «you want your Mexico so much and what you want to progress, and you are so lanterns and you like the fabulous, there is a gift» and it was nothing less than the Metro of Mexico City, what is known today as Collective transport system, Metro».