Without debt, investment of $70 billion for infrastructure in QR, highlights AMLO

Patricia Vazquez

Correspondent

Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, January 30, 2022, p. 5

Cancún, QR., In the construction of the Mayan Train, road infrastructure, airport and environmental preservation works in Quintana Roo, an investment of approximately 70 billion pesos will be madeaffirmed President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who pointed out that in the section from Tulum to Cancún we are still seeing the outlines, because we do not want to impose anything, as Juarez said, nothing by force, everything by reason and law, and we have to convince, we have to persuade.

Leading a work tour in Cancun to announce a package of infrastructure works for around 10 billion pesos in Cancun and Tulum, he anticipated that he will deliver the Mayan Train on its 2,500 kilometers of railway by the end of 2023.

Accompanied by Governor Carlos Joaquín González at the ceremony, he added that the investment of 70 billion pesos for the state It is not credit, but a public budget, there will be no debt.

He pointed out that the advantage of the Escárcega-Tulum section is that military engineers will work, once the works of the Felipe Ángeles airport are completed, which will be inaugurated on March 21. “We are just about to finish (…) and all the military engineers come to that assignment, to that task; They are two sections that will be under the coordination and execution of the military engineers”.

Regarding infrastructure works, the modernization of 11.1 kilometers of Luis Donaldo Colosio Boulevard will cost 900 million pesos and will begin next May to finish in November 2023, with a financing scheme between Fonadin and Banobras.

As an alternate route to reach the Cancun airport, López Obrador announced the construction of the 6.2-kilometer Chac Mool avenue, with an investment of 150 million pesos. Also 200 million for the modernization of the junction to the Cancun airport, which will allow connection with the Riviera Maya-Cancun-Hotel Zone tourist corridor, as well as the construction of a 13.5-kilometer vehicular bridge in the Nichupté lagoon.

The President, who in the morning reviewed the progress of the Mayan Train in Yucatan, where he was accompanied by Governor Mauricio Vila, highlighted the creation of the Jaguar National Park, which seeks to stop the excessive urban growth of this and surrounding regions, with which it is intended to constitute an area of ​​the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve, of 260 thousand hectares, where the Tulum National Park is located.

With this measure, the expansion is sought with an acquisition, purchase or donation of 300 hectares to constitute a nucleus of around a thousand hectares. He clarified that for the new reserve there will be no expropriations, must be the product of the agreement, compensation and purchase, including.