"La Tapatía" resumed its advance after surpassing muddy ground between the Catedral and Independencia stations; reason for which Rodolfo Guadalajara, head of SITEUR, trusted that the excavation would not face any more technical issues and that it would complete before finishing 2017.

[4] More concretely, Salvador Fernández Ayala -representative of the SCT in Jalisco- said to local media that the TBM would complete the work in December 2017 and that the line 3 would start operating at the beginning of June or July 2018.

[8] This happened on September 12, when, around 11:00 A.M., the president inaugurated the line, and, afterwards, it was open to the public after 4 P.M. After the start of work in 2014, its estimated date of completion was originally planned to be in 2016; which would suggest a build time of only two years, and given the scale of the project, sounded very unrealistic.

[11] It was the mandataries Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president of the nation, and Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, governor of the state of Jalisco, who had to inaugurate Line 3 of the Electric Train.

from the vehicular node Basílica until the Roundabout La Normal, in the Municipality of Guadalajara (Plaza Patria, Circunvalación Country and Ávila Camacho stations).

In 2009, the then mayor of Tlajomulco -Enrique Alfaro Ramírez- proposed a failed project for a Line 3 of the Guadalajara light rail to the Jalisco State Congress; however it was rejected by partisan majority.

[16] The TBM was already 60 metres ahead of the Metropolitan Cathedral, just below the Plaza de Armas, at which time it was pointed out that the 400 years old property passed the "litmus test" despite the report of new cracks.