A study by the Bank of Mexico (Banxico) highlights that this implies greater costs in terms of well-being and restrictions on personal care and rest time. In Nuevo León, the gap is dramatic: while car users take one hour and 14 minutes for a round trip, those who use the bus invest 2 hours and 47 minutes, that is, more than double. The 'Así Vamos 2025' survey also details that, on average, people who move on public transport in the State wait 32 minutes for the unit to pass and walk 19 minutes to the stop. Furthermore, although transfer times decreased by an average of 5 minutes compared to 2024 (going from one hour 38 to one hour 33 minutes), the comparison with 2019 shows a problematic picture: Car travel times have increased by 11 minutes since 2019. Bus travel times have increased by 52 minutes in the same period. A call for coordinated solutions. Cecilia Carrillo López, director of Coparmex Nuevo León, pointed out that the mobility problem persists and worsens. 'More and more companies have to add public transportation benefits to ensure that their workers arrive on time at the operation of their work centers,' she highlighted. The business leader urged for coordinated solutions among the three levels of government: Federal government: in housing policy and financing. State government: in public transportation. Municipalities: in urban development and densification. Despite the fact that in Nuevo León 65.9% of the population indicates having at least one automobile in their home (6.1 percentage points more than in 2024), the Monterrey metropolitan area suffers not only a deficit in public transportation but also collapsed roadways. The study reveals that, far from being resolved, the mobility crisis in the entity has deepened in the last six years, disproportionately affecting workers with lower incomes who depend on public transportation. Workers in the Monterrey metropolitan area face the second longest travel time to their workplaces in the entire country, employing more than an hour to get to their jobs. According to an analysis by Coparmex Nuevo León based on a Bank of Mexico (Banxico) study, they are only surpassed by the inhabitants of the CDMX. The report titled 'Heterogeneity in Regional Mobility of People to Work in Mexico', published in the Banxico Regional Economies Report, reveals that 15.4% of workers in the Monterrey metropolitan area invest more than 60 minutes to get to their job. This rate is only surpassed by the CDMX, where 27.28% of workers suffer transfers longer than an hour. Following Nuevo León are the metropolitan areas of Toluca (14.87%), Guadalajara (14.77%), and Cancún (14.24%). Public transportation: the great laggard. At the national level, 61% of employees who take more than 60 minutes to get to their work are public transport users, which shows a strong inequality in access to mobility means according to occupational position. 'This suggests that inequalities in transfer times are associated, in part, with differences in access to transportation means.'
