Abstract

BLANCAS RAMIREZ, Silvia; HERNANDEZ ROJO, Marcos  and  ARELLANO GAULT, David. An Expected Organizational Disaster: Institutional and Organizational Dynamics in the Implementation of Line 12 of Subway in Mexico City. Four Explanatory Axes. Gest. polít. pública [online]. 2018, vol.27, n.3, pp.127-175.  Epub Oct 16, 2020. ISSN 1405-1079.  https://doi.org/10.29265/gypp.v27i3.451.

The reasons why the suspension of subway line 12 operations happens requires understanding several causalities. This article proposes four analytical axes from an organizational point of view. These axes summarize how the disorganization and uncontrol of the organizations that build, design and operate the subway, among an opaque political governance on the hands of local government actors, allowed the technical failures and imprudence which yield the suspension of the line 12 for several months. This analytical framework shows that this disorganization is still in place and very probably will cause new situations like the fiasco of line 12. The article calls for a discussion on the recovery of the governance needed to link the political, technical, and organizational factors required to operate critical urban infrastructures like the subway.

Keywords : transport public policy; urban infrastructure; governmental organizations; subway systems.

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