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Mexico’s Transportation Ministry (SICT) plans to put much than 112 cardinal pesos (nearly US $6 billion) connected road improvements implicit the adjacent 5 years.
According to a property release, the enactment volition people 10 large national expressways that transverse 14 states, from Sonora and Chihuahua successful the northbound to Tabasco and Campeche successful the south. The task volition besides see attraction of respective authorities highways.
The last fund for the national road task was little than primitively announced by President Sheinbaum but proscription authorities accent that the precedence is not the full kilometers, but alternatively what the repairs tin bash for the communities the roads connect. (Presidencia/Cuartoscuro)Carlos Arceo, the SICT’s manager of highways who announced the program during a league organized by the College of Civil Engineers connected Monday, said the purpose is to transcend 2,220 kilometers (1,367 miles) of repairs and improvements.
The scope of the task volition autumn abbreviated of what was announced successful February by President Claudia Sheinbaum erstwhile she presented a 173 billion-peso program to upgrade 4,000 km (2,485 miles) of highway.
“Investment unsocial is ne'er enough,” Arceo said. “The important happening is to cognize wherever to invest. So, we’re going to agelong [the investment] arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable to execute the top imaginable interaction with less resources.”
In keeping with what Sheinbaum said successful February, however, Arceo said the task volition people roads that “truly service the communities” they traverse.
“We’re gathering roads to adjacent the inequality gap,” helium said. “We’re not conscionable reasoning astir a road, but astir the benefits that roadworthy volition bring to communities.”
In summation to the roadworthy upgrades, improvements volition beryllium made to 16.3 km worthy of bridges and interchanges crossed 9 states.
La ampliación de la carretera Macuspana-Escárcega beneficiará a 370 mil usuarios 🛣️✨
Este proyecto contempla la modernización full en 300 km y la construcción de dos puentes vehiculares, Poza Azul y Agua Blanca. pic.twitter.com/W2l0zzSsol
— SICT México (@SICTmx) August 18, 2025
Among the projects being carried retired this twelvemonth are upgrades to the Cuautla-Tlapa-Marquelia Highway, connecting the states of Morelos, Puebla, and Guerrero, and the Pachuca-Huejutla-Tamazunchale Highway, linking the states of Hidalgo and San Luis Potosí. Long stretches of some of these highways volition beryllium widened from 7 meters to 12 meters.
The 67-km agelong of the Bavispe-Nuevo Casas Grandes Highway, from the authorities of Sonora to Chihuahua is scheduled for completion by the extremity of this year, portion improvements to 2 cardinal sections of the fashionable 650-km Tierra y Libertad road that traverses 36 municipalities successful the authorities Morelos — the El Hospital bypass and the Jojutla span — should beryllium completed by the extremity of the month.
Additionally, the heavy utilized Highway 57 successful the bluish authorities of Coahuila volition beryllium widened from Saltillo, the authorities capital, to Monclova — a region of astir 200 kilometers (124 miles) — to accommodate the measurement of cargo transported connected this route.
Arceo said biology interaction assessments are underway successful bid to upgrade the Toluca-Zihuatanejo road connecting the superior of México authorities with the fashionable Guerrero formation resort.
The different 4 stretches slated for betterment connect:
- Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosí and Tampico, Tamaulipas
- Salina Cruz, Oaxaca and Zihuatenejo, Guerrero
- Macuspana, Tabasco, and Escárcega, Campeche
- Guaymas-Esperanza-Yécora, Sonora and Chihuahua, Chihuahua
With reports from La Jornada, Milenio and T21
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