Although President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised not to leave unfinished works at the end of his term, he did so with the most important one: the Nichupté Vehicular Bridge.
Although President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) promised not to leave unfinished works at the end of his term, in Quintana Roo there are still several large-scale infrastructure projects to be completed.
The most important is the Nichupté Vehicular Bridge that connects the city center with the hotel zone of Cancún.
The project is an urban road completely suspended on piles, with a total length of 8.80 kilometers, made up of a land section that begins on Colosio Boulevard and crosses over the Nichupté lagoon system, until it ends at kilometer 12 of Kukulcán Boulevard.
As of June of this year, the quarterly report on Physical and Financial Progress of the Federal Government’s Investment Programs and Projects, stated that the work had a physical progress of 52.70% and had spent 61.76% of the 7,847 million pesos that the bridge will cost.
Although it was evident since then that the work was not going to be ready before the end of López Obrador’s government, the head of the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT), Jorge Nuño, insisted on different occasions during the president’s morning conference that the bridge would be delivered before the end of the current federal administration.
Currently, the work is still approximately 65% complete, with no progress yet shown in the construction of the segment that runs over the lagoon.
In addition, costs have risen to 7,847 million, that is, 40% more than the 5,570 million pesos with which the work was awarded to the firm ICA through public bidding.
Another of the works that the president leaves unfinished is the connection between the Cancun International Airport (AIC) and the Maya Train terminal.
This is a passenger transportation system through electric buses between both terminals that should have started operating since the beginning of the year, but although the electric buses have already been donated by Aeropuertos del Sureste, the road link between the two stations that will allow the circulation of this bus system has not been finished.
The plan is for the buses to travel a 15.5 kilometer circuit, facilitating the transfer of passengers from terminals 2, 3 and 4 of the Cancun International Airport to the Maya Train station.
The buses will go around the airport runways, through a two-lane perimeter road, exclusively for the passage of seven electric units to the Tren Maya station.
There is still no date for the start of operations of this transportation system.
Finally, another of the unfinished projects is the expansion of highway 180, which also connects with the Tren Maya station, for which a budget of 1,000 million pesos was announced, but so far only the project for the preparation of feasibility studies has been entered into the portfolio of investment projects of the Ministry of Finance.
Source: eleconomista
