Conceived by the López Obrador administration to connect Cancún’s hotel zone with the airport, the Nichupté vehicular bridge has accumulated delays, cost overruns, and findings from the Federal Auditor’s Office (ASF). Furthermore, specialists warn that the bridge will have a limited lifespan.
The Nichupté vehicular bridge project, conceived by the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador to improve traffic flow in Cancún, faces a cascade of findings totaling more than 95 million pesos from the Federal Auditor’s Office (ASF) four years after construction began, without it yet being completed.
Planned for completion in 2023 and inauguration by the former president, the project has also incurred cost overruns exceeding 10 billion pesos, doubling its initial budget from 2022.
The structure spans the Nichupté Lagoon for 11.2 kilometers and aims to connect Cancún’s hotel zone with the city’s southern access point, near the International Airport.
It began with an initial investment of 4.335 billion pesos, but according to the latest federal report, the cost has risen to 10.899 billion pesos, an amount that is already more than 150% higher than the original budget and roughly equivalent to the government budget for Cancún for one or two years in Playa del Carmen.
Fractures, subsidence, and other natural barriers imposed by the lagoon have repeatedly delayed its inauguration, and to date, there is no clear completion date for the works, although authorities have claimed for months that they are more than 90 percent complete.
In addition to these setbacks, the Federal Audit Office (ASF) detected damages to the federal treasury amounting to 95,924,850 pesos, for which it has initiated administrative proceedings to require public officials from the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications, and Transportation (SICT) to clarify the use of these funds.
Source: alcontacto
