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The government could take them to court in an attempt to force them to foot the bill, but that could take years and the results would be uncertain.

The president added that he was speaking to the companies that built Line 12, the portion of the metro system that experienced the overpass collapse, to fix it and restore service as soon as possible. Mexico City’s subway is the second largest in the Americas, after New York City’s. Speaking at a news conference on Wednesday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke of the urgent need to “rehabilitate the line as soon as possible because more than 300,000 people travel” on it daily. Both The Times’s and DNV’s investigations found that serious construction flaws led to the collapse of an overpass in Mexico City’s subway system, including problems with the welding and placement of metal studs, which were linchpins of the entire structure. The results of a government-commissioned probe conducted by DNV, a Norwegian risk management company, and released last week, supported the findings of an investigation published just days earlier by The New York Times. Slim would absorb any of the cost of fixing the line, which failed less than nine years after it opened.

Slim’s engineering firm had caused part of a metro line to collapse last month, killing 26 people.īut it was not clear whether that meant Mr. MEXICO CITY - The business tycoon Carlos Slim is willing to repair part of Mexico City’s subway system, the country’s president said Wednesday, after investigations found that shoddy work by Mr.