This article examines how people in Mexico's Federal District (Distrito Federal) contested transit policies and responded to the introduction of new technical infrastructures, like the electrified tram network. District officials published transit guidelines that reflected elite preoccupation with order, but their heavy-handed policies faced resistance from poor, working-class, and middle-class residents. This defiance took different forms: noncompliance, rule-breaking, public protests, and written complaints to officials and the press. Municipal governments wielded considerable power to shape policy and clashed over jurisdiction and authority over taxation and police mobility. National leaders serving the strongman president, Porfirio Díaz, undermined this influence and consolidated decision-making authority in the office of the district governor and the city council of Mexico City. They justified limiting municipal authority and democratic participation in the district as necessary to improve urban transportation infrastructure, improve tax collection, and streamline transit policy. Nevertheless, this attempt at centralization failed amid public complaints about continuing service problems and allegations of official incompetence in the Dirección de Obras Públicas (directorate of public works). After 1910, when the Mexican Revolution brought a new generation of political leadership to power, the policy was reversed, serving as an important symbolic and administrative break with the past.

本文探讨了墨西哥联邦区（Distrito Federal）的人们如何反对运输政策，以及如何应对新技术基础设施的引进，例如电气化电车网络。地区官员发布了交通指南，反映了精英阶层对秩序的高度关注，但他们的强硬政策遭到了贫困，工人阶级和中产阶级居民的抵制。这种蔑视采取不同形式：违规，违反规则，公众抗议以及对官员和新闻界的书面投诉。市政府拥有相当大的权力来制定政策，并就税收和警察调动方面的管辖权和权威发生冲突。服务强人总统PorfirioDíaz的国家领导人，削弱了这种影响力并巩固了墨西哥州州长办公室和市议会办公室中的决策权。他们认为有必要限制市政当局和对该地区的民主参与，以改善城市交通基础设施，改善税收和简化过境政策。但是，由于公众抱怨持续存在的服务问题以及有关该部门官员无能的指控，这种集中化的尝试失败了。Direcciónde ObrasPúblicas（公共工程总监）。1910年后，墨西哥革命将新一代政治领导权上台，该政策被逆转，成为与过去的重要象征性和行政性突破。