Mayor Tabe Urges Mexico City to Reclassify and Maintain 14 Primary Roads
Mexico City, February 9, 2026 – Mauricio Tabe, Mayor of Miguel Hidalgo, has formally requested that the Mexico City government reclassify 14 roads within his borough as primary, asserting that their nature and high traffic volume mandate their maintenance by the Secretary of Public Works. This move, announced during a press conference, aims to address an approximate additional annual maintenance expenditure of 50 million pesos currently borne by the Miguel Hidalgo administration.
Decentralized Responsibilities, Centralized Resources
Mayor Tabe highlighted a critical imbalance, stating, “Responsibilities are decentralized, but resources are centralized.” He emphasized that the maintenance of just seven primary roads, transferred to the borough in previous years, incurs an annual cost of about 25 million pesos for green areas, lighting, patching, signage, and drainage.
“That is why we tell our neighbors in these areas that we are raising our voices so that the City government can maintain these roads that they originally maintained, and that in previous administrations they shook off the responsibility, leaving us with the problems, but they did not transfer the resources to us,” Tabe explained.
The Mayor underscored that only responsibilities are delegated, without any additional funds being allocated. This results in problems being decentralized while resources remain centralized.
Formal Request to the Secretary of Public Works
Tabe announced that a written request would be submitted to the Mexico City government and the Secretary of Public Works to review and resume maintenance of these primary roads. He stressed the importance of either reclassifying these secondary roads as primary and having the city take charge of their maintenance, or, if the responsibility is to remain with the borough, ensuring that the corresponding resources for their upkeep are also transferred. “We are talking about 25 million pesos in maintenance for just seven roads,” he reiterated.
He further pointed out that the Mexico City government retains approximately 2 billion pesos in property tax paid by residents in the Miguel Hidalgo demarcation, funds which are not visibly reflected in benefits for the local neighborhoods.
“This is not about getting into a fight, because it is not a fight. It is about raising our voices for what is fair, which is what the neighbors demand of me: ‘I pay a lot of property tax and there is no money to repave the street, there is no money to fix the streetlights,’ even though we make a great effort to manage public money carefully,” Tabe stated.
Specific Roads for Reclassification
Mauricio Tabe identified several roads that, due to their high traffic flow, should be classified as primary. These include Arquímedes, Lago Onega, Salvador Díaz Mirón, Lago Alberto, Bahía de Santa Bárbara, and Leibnitz.
Additionally, he proposed that roads such as Avenida Jalisco, Ingenieros Militares, San Bartolo Naucalpan, Lago Chiem, Lago Hielmar, Avenida Chapultepec, and Gral. Pedro Antonio de los Santos revert to their original classification as primary routes. Conversely, he requested that Av. Horacio be reclassified as a secondary road.
Mayor Tabe was accompanied by David Rodríguez Lara, Executive Director of Urban Services for the Miguel Hidalgo borough, during the press conference.
