The system of ejes viales (singular: eje vial, lit. "road axis") in Mexico City is a large network of wide arterial roads with coordinated traffic signals. They are mainly directed in one-way with a single lane going in the opposite direction used exclusively by public transportation. The network was a project of Mexico City mayor Carlos Hank González and the first part of the network, after extensive construction and demolition of buildings and removal of trees, opened in 1979. [1] With the exception of the Eje Central, a south-to-north eje passing through the historic center of Mexico City, the ejes are numbered with cardinal directions, for example going north from the center: Eje 1 Norte, then Eje 2 Norte, and so forth. In addition to the Eje number and directional, the streets retain their individual names, with one eje thus consisting of multiple sequential individually named streets.
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(Mostly south-to-north with counterflow lane)
(Mostly west-to-east with counterflow)
(East-to-west with counterflow lane)
(Mostly two-way)
(Two-way and west-to-east)
(Mostly east-to-west with counterflow lane, Metrobús line 6 (planned))
(Partially two-way)
(Two-way)
(West-to-east with counterflow lane)
Juan Escutia (From Circuito Interior José Vasconselos to Av. Tamaulipas)
(East-to-west with counterflow lane)
(West-to-east artery with counterflow lane and Metrobús line 2)
(East-to-west with reversible lane)
(West-to-east with reversible lane(s))
(mostly east-to-west with two-way on Zapata)
Municipio Libre' (From Av. Universidad to Circuito Interior Rio Churubusco)
(West-to-east and two-way)
(Fragmented two-way)
(East-to-west artery and two-way)
(Mostly north-to-south)
(Mostly south-to-north)
(Two-way, Metrobús line 5 planned)
Eje 3 Oriente forms part of the “Eje Troncal Metropolitano” connecting Ecatepec with Xochimilco in southeast Mexico City, along:
(Two-way)
(Two-way)
(North-to-south, non-continuous)
(Two-way)
(North-to-south with counterflow lane and Metrobús line 3)
(South-to-north)
(North-to-south)
(Two-way)
El tramo Revolución tiene sentido Norte - Sur de Benjamin Franklin a Circuito Interior Río Mixcoac, and posteriormente two-way.
(Two-way)
(Sur 128 funge como su vialidad auxiliar sentido Norte - Sur)
(Non-continuous two-way)
(Two-way)