Get ready! Alternate routes of the Puebla-Orizaba highway will be closed, which has been blocked for a month in the Cumbres de Maltrata section due to a landslide.
Why will the chaos on the alternate routes increase? Due to the poor condition in which they are, the Secretary of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT), Jesús Antonio Esteva, announced that they will carry out a patching.
This announcement was made this Saturday, November 30, 2024, during the inauguration of the IMSS Bienestar Hospital in Orizaba, Veracruz, headed by President Claudia Sheinbaum.
Alternate routes of the Puebla-Orizaba will be closed, what are the alternatives?
This is the federal highway in the Cumbres de Acultzingo area, where the passage of heavy cargo transport has already been prohibited, because it is a very dangerous road.
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Other alternative routes to travel from the South to the capital of the country are the Magueyes-Atzitzintla highway and the Orizaba-Conejos-Xalapa highway.
These highways, in addition to being narrow and dangerous due to the curves, are in great deterioration, which affects traffic and causes chaos.
Why is the Puebla-Orizaba highway closed at the height of the Cumbres de Maltrata?
On October 26, 2024, part of a hill collapsed at the height of the Cumbres de Maltrata, which caused a total closure and a technical emergency in the direction of Puebla.
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Chambers of transporters and motorists do not tire of demanding that the work be accelerated and of showing that it will take at least a year.
It was not until this Saturday during the visit of the president of Mexico, that the Secretary of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport, Jesús Antonio Esteva, announced that at the end of January two lanes will be freed for temporary passage on the Acatzingo-Ciudad Mendoza highway.
He promised that by April there will be a definitive solution to the 10.5-meter section.
Source: mtpnoticias
