Line 4 (Sistema de Tren Eléctrico Urbano)

Guadalajara urban rail system Line 4
Train 4001 at the Line 4 yard.
Train 4001 at the Line 4 yard.
Overview
Native nameLínea 4 del Tren Eléctrico Urbano de Guadalajara
Area servedGuadalajara, Tlaquepaque and Tlajomulco
LocaleJalisco, Mexico
Transit typeLight rail
Line number4
Number of stations
8
Daily ridership
106,000 (estimated)
Websitelinea4.jalisco.gob.mx
Operation
Began operation
December 15, 2025[1]
OperatorSistema de Tren Eléctrico Urbano
Rolling stockTEG-23
Headway7 minutes (estimated)
Technical
System length21.7 km (13.5 mi)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Average speed30 km/h (20 mph)
Top speed70 km/h (45 mph)
System map

 Las Juntas
 Acueducto (future infill station)
 Jalisco 200 Años
 Real del Valle
maintenance facility
Concepción del Valle
 El Cuervo
 Lomas del Sur
 CUTLAJO
Yard
Tlajomulco Centro

Line 4 of the Guadalajara Urban Electric Train System (SITEUR) is the fourth public transport railway line in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (Mexico), and currently its newest. The line is 21.2 km (13.2 mi) long and runs from the Las Juntas station in central Tlaquepaque to the center of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga at Tlajomulco Centro station[2].

It is estimated that the number of daily passengers will be 106,000 passengers, and construction will cost 9.137 billion Mexican pesos (approximately 460 million U.S. Dollars). On December 15, 2025, Line 4 was inaugurated.[3] The line is marked orange on system maps.

History

Original project

Map of Line 3 proposed by Alfaro and discarded by the local congress in 2009.

In 2009, then-mayor of Tlajomulco, Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, proposed a project for a third line[4] of the Guadalajara light rail to the Jalisco State Congress; however it was rejected by a partisan majority. The project would have entailed the construction of a completely overground line, which would have run toward the south of the Guadalajara metropolitan area; starting its route at the Isla Raza station of Line 1 of SITEUR running over the Miguel Topete street until its crossing with and taking over the Patria Sur Avenue, from there it would turn east to take the Luis Covarrubias street until a small fork to retake the Patria Sur Avenue, at which point it would make a turn south taking the FF.CC. Guadalajara-Manzanillo tracks until the Hacienda Santa Fe colony, in the municipality of Tlajomulco.[5]

With this project it was intended to benefit to more than 700,000 people, as the zones where the line would be built on suffer from a strong recession in public transport matters. Nevertheless, the Line 4 project has been already contemplated by the SCT, with a similar route to that suggested in 2009.[6][7]

Current project

After many years of many proposals to bring connectivity to the Municipality of Tlajomulco with the rest of the Guadalajara metropolitan area, both then-presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and then-gubernatorial candidate Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, spoke independently in their 2018 campaigns about the construction of a forth line of the electric train system towards the Tlajomulco Centre.[8][9] After both candidates were elected, a López Obrador spokesman announced the Isla Raza to Santa Fe project,[10] a route that had been proposed and analyzed years before during the governorship of Emilio González Márquez.[11]

López Obrador and Alfaro discussed and agreed to resume this project[12], and more studies about the route to be built were made[13] while some adjustments were considered.[14] The announcement of this work caused mixed reactions among businessmen; the Council of Industrial Chambers of Jalisco presented negative to the project,[15] while the Mexican Chamber of the Building Industry of Jalisco pronounced in favour.[16]

In 2020, some doubts arose about President López Obrador’s backing of the project he signed with Jalisco governor Enrique Alfaro Ramírez in July 2019; public doubt faded when, during his speech for the opening of Line 3 on September 12th, 2020, President López Obrador said that he endorsed the promise that he made to build Line 4.[17] Preliminary works for the new line was planned to start in October of that same year.[18][19]

Construction was planned to start at the end of October 2021,[20][21] but works did not start until 2022. Preliminary works began on May 6, 2022,[22] and construction was formally started on May 22, 2022,[23] in an inaugural event hosting Governor Alfaro, the municipal presidents of the Guadalajara metropolitan area and some special guests. Construction had been planned to finish in March 2024, .[24][23] In early May 2025, the Jalisco state government announced that 89% of all work was done for the line.[25] On November 6, 2025, Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus announced that the line would open on December 15, 2025.[26]

On December 15, 2025, Line 4 was inaugurated into service with the SITEUR network.[27]

Characteristics

Line 4 has a length of 21.2 km (13.2 mi) and a travel time of around 35 min.[28] It runs mainly north-south, from the Miravalle colonia of Tlaquepaque to the Hacienda Agave colonia of Tlajomulco de Zuniga. Its northern terminus is the Las Juntas station, a multimodal transfer center (CETRAM) which connects it with the Fray Angelico station, the southern terminus of the Mi Macro Caldaza bus line. Its southern terminus is at Tlajomulco Centro station, near the geographic center of Tlajomulco and further up north of the existing former Mexican Central Railway train station[29].

A TEG-23 bound for the northern terminus of Las Juntas pulling into El Cuervo station in 2026

The line principally runs on the existing Ferromex Guadalajara-Manzanillo railway right-of-wayand is triple-tracked along its entire span, with the two westernmost lines equipped with overhead lines dedicated to Line 4 and the easternmost line for freight service. All stations on the line are island platforms.

The line is physically disconnected from the rest of the SITEUR light rail system; it is only joined to the rest of the Guadalajara public transit system by the BRT services Mi Macro Periférico bus line at the Jalisco 200 Años station and the Mi Macro Caldaza bus line at the Las Juntas/Fray Angélico station.[23]

Stations

See also

References

  1. ↑ Toledo, Pablo (December 12, 2025). "La Línea 4 ya es una realidad: horarios, estaciones y todo para usarla desde el día uno". eloccidental (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved December 15, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Inicio". www.siteur.gob.mx. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  3. ↑ Álvarez, Óscar (December 15, 2025). "¿Cada cuánto tiempo pasará el tren en la Línea 4 del Tren Ligero?". www.informador.mx (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved December 15, 2025.
  4. ↑ In 2009, only Lines 1 and 2 existed in the SITEUR system, hence why the project was proposed as “Line 3”. However, by 2014 a different light rail line going by the name “Line 3” was under construction, and so from then on, the proposed Guadalajara-Tlajomulco line was proposed as “Line 4”
  5. ↑ Habría línea 3 de Tren Ligero
  6. ↑ "Industriales urgen a construir Línea 4 de tren ligero". Guadalajara, Jalisco. 2017-10-19. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  7. ↑ "En la mira más líneas del Tren Ligero". Guadalajara, Jalisco.: OEM. 2017-10-20. Archived from the original on 2017-10-25. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  8. ↑ "López Obrador reitera proyecto de Línea 4 del Tren Ligero". www.milenio.com. 19 September 2018. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  9. ↑ "Alfaro promete Línea 4 del Tren Ligero y abasto de agua" (in Spanish). El Informador :: Noticias de Jalisco, México, Deportes & Entretenimiento. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  10. ↑ "Anuncia Lomelí Línea 4 de Tren Ligero de Isla Raza a Tlajomulco para 2019" (in Mexican Spanish). El Occidental. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  11. ↑ "Sorprende Emilio con Tren Ligero" (in Spanish). El Informador :: Noticias de Jalisco, México, Deportes & Entretenimiento. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  12. ↑ "Alfaro acuerda con AMLO cuatro obras clave" (in Spanish). El Informador :: Noticias de Jalisco, México, Deportes & Entretenimiento. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  13. ↑ "Analizan trazos para Línea 4 del Tren Ligero en Jalisco" (in European Spanish). La Neta Noticias. 2018-08-14. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  14. ↑ Romo, Patricia. "Ajustan proyecto de Tren Ligero en Jalisco". El Economista. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  15. ↑ "Línea 4 del Tren Ligero es inviable: empresarios; el proyecto AMLO-Alfaro en Jalisco" (in Mexican Spanish). Reporte Indigo. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  16. ↑ Romo, Patricia. "Línea 4 del Tren Ligero detonaría a la construcción". El Economista. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  17. ↑ "Tren Ligero Guadalajara: Se mantiene sobre vías proyecto de Línea 4". 14 September 2020.
  18. ↑ "Obras de la Línea 4 del Tren Ligero arrancan en octubre". 2021-06-29. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  19. ↑ Escamilla, Héctor (2021-06-29). "Anuncian inicio de la Línea 4 del Tren Ligero tapatío para octubre". Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  20. ↑ "Fecha de construcción de la Línea 4 del Tren Ligero". Unión Jalisco (in Mexican Spanish). 2021-07-01. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  21. ↑ "Línea 4 del Tren Ligero: Obras arrancan en octubre". El Informador :: Noticias de Jalisco, México, Deportes & Entretenimiento (in Mexican Spanish). 29 June 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  22. ↑ Vega Rodríguez, Juan Manuel (2022-05-05). "Línea 4: Esto es lo que sabemos de la obra del Tren Ligero hacia Tlajomulco". Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  23. 1 2 3 "Enrique Alfaro arranca las obras de la Línea 4 a Tlajomulco". Prensa del Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco. 2022-05-22. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
  24. ↑ "En mayo inician obra de la Línea 4 del Tren Ligero de Guadalajara; finalizaría en marzo del 2024". El Debate (in Mexican Spanish). 2022-03-30. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
  25. ↑ "Línea 4 Avances Mayo 2025" (in Spanish). Gobierno al Estilo Jalisco. May 2025. Retrieved 2025-05-17.
  26. ↑ "Línea 4 inicia operaciones el 15 de diciembre, confirma Pablo Lemus". Metrópoli Jalisco (in Mexican Spanish). 2025-11-06. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
  27. ↑ Flores, Fabián (December 15, 2025). "Primeras imágenes de la Línea 4 en operación". www.informador.mx (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved December 15, 2025.
  28. ↑ "Línea 4. 12 años de lucha" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-06-11.
  29. ↑ "Tlajomulco". Secretaría de Cultura/Sistema de Información Cultural (in Spanish). Retrieved 2026-05-13.
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