Silvia Chavez Gonzalez
Correspondent
Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday April 3, 2022, p. 7
Tultepec, Mex., Local deputies from the PRI, PAN, PT and Morena asked the Ministry of Mobility of the state of Mexico to manage the reduction of the toll cost of the Circuito Exterior Mexiquense in its connection with the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), where yesterday they made a tour to supervise the progress of alternative road works towards the air terminal.
The cost of paying the toll from Mexico City to the Las Américas booth in Ecatepec costs 68 pesos; from Las Américas to the exit of Tultepec, where you take the deviation towards AIFA, you pay 95 pesos, on a light trip, that is, by car.
From Atizapán de Zaragoza or Tlalnepantla, in the first section you pay 28 pesos; at the second toll booth, which is in Tultitlán, it is 35 pesos and from there to Tultepec towards the airport, the drivers pay 95 pesos.
Faustino de la Cruz, deputy for Morena, stated that the company Aleatica, formerly Obrascón Huarte Lain (OHL), benefited from the concession of the interconnection roadworks of the Circuito Exterior Mexiquense to AIFA, could consider reducing the toll amount.
For his part, Alberto Angulo Lara, general director of Highway Systems, Airports and Related and Auxiliary Services of the state of Mexico, reported that accesses were enabled for the distributor of the main entrance of the AIFA, although two more entrances for travelers are yet to be completed. from the north and west, as well as for those from Texcoco.
The president of the Special Commission for the Development of the Airport System, Marco Antonio Cruz Cruz, announced that the commission he chairs will organize work tables with the Secretariat of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development and with Highway Systems so that they invest in free secondary roads in the surrounding municipalities, because they have only given priority to toll roads.
In addition, he considered essential to know the state of progress and safety in the road works collateral to the AIFA, because the municipalities of Tecámac, Zumpango and Nextlalpan, among others, are going to concentrate a very important industrial and housing development; communication converges in this region towards Toluca, and the states of Querétaro and Puebla, it will be an important development pole, with logistics companies and we require timely information
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