The next holder of the National Fund of Promotion to the Tourism, Rogelio Jiménez Pons, revealed that the government of transition will invest 30 billion pesos; He said that no area will be touched where social consultations have not been held.
The next holder of the National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur) in the administration
of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Rogelio Jiménez Pons, revealed that the transitional government
plans to invest around 30 billion pesos in the Mayan Trainproject. 150 million pesos that is
expected to cost the work.
In a meeting with businessmen from Yucatan, Jiménez Pons assured that the financing for the
work would come from the savings that the federal administration achieves with adjustments
to the “very high current expenditure that is currently available”, as well as contributions
from the private initiative.
“It is preferable for the country to have more productive investment spending,
such as the train, than current spending”
Rogelio Jiménez Pons, the next holder of the National Fund for Tourism Promotion.
He said that the estimated cost of the train ranges between 120 thousand and 150
thousand million pesos, but he explained that private investment would go not only
to laying the tracks, but to the installation of the stations and restaurants along
these, with the purpose of generating poles of development.
Jiménez Pons pointed out that 95% of the rights to roads are already in place and
that no area will be touched where social consultations have not been carried out
and social impact studies, which he underlined, have been carried out for a couple
of months.
On August 13, the president-elect, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, explained that the Maya
Train is planned to travel through the states of Tabasco, Campeche, Chiapas, Yucatán and
Quintana Roo, which originally included Cancún, Tulum, Bacalar, Kalakmul and Palenque.
It contemplates a partial air structure of 80 percent in its Cancun-Tulumsection ,
in Quintana Roo with 12 stations.
He explained that the train project includes two branches that would form a kind of
“Y” in the Yucatan Peninsula, using the rights of way of the Southeast Train (which
was not concessioned), the Federal Electricity Commission and several roads.