Railroad route between Tulum and Cancun ready

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Railroad route between Tulum and Cancun ready

Christian C

Investment is around 40,000 mdp. It is intended to offer a new mass transit service to travelers and workers in the tourist corridor of the northern area of Quintana Roo.
The government of Quintana Roo has begun preliminary studies to bid for the design, construction, operation and maintenance of a passenger train that will go from Cancun to Tulum and will require an investment of around 40,000 million pesos.

With the new infrastructure, which involves a length of 126 kilometers, it is intended to offer a new mass transport service to tourists and workers in the tourist corridor of the north of the state connecting Cancun (including the airport), Puerto Morelos, Playa del Carmen and Tulum.

It is expected that, in the first semester of next year, the bidding process will be carried out, with an international character and under the modality of public-private partnership and that at the end of the same it will start its construction.
“Currently, the train is in process of the permits with the corresponding federal agencies and does not have federal resources allocation,” the state government reported.
This would be the second occasion, in less than six years, that an attempt is made to connect these tourist spots with a railway system. At the beginning of 2015, the federal government announced the cancellation for budgetary reasons of the trans-peninsular train that would go from Mérida to Cancún, even though in the previous 24 months it spent 504.1 million pesos.
Unofficially, it has been mentioned that one of the reasons that prevented the development of the train in the largest tourist area of the country was the opposition of groups of taxi drivers and vans that currently offer public service in the region, including the connection to the local airport .

However, on this occasion, the president of the Mexican Association of Travel Agencies, Jorge Hernández Delgado, considered that the recently approved Mobility Law in Quintana Roo will be a point in favor of the project, because among other things, it eliminates discretion in the granting of concessions of the public transport service and will take into account strictly technical and social factors, as the businessmen have suggested for the benefit of the sector.
Even, has fought for the creation of a Tourist Transport Advisory Board, which is responsible for regulating and generating certainty to the participants in the activity: buses, cars, vans or limousines.

“It is a train that is needed and will come to add to the attractions that are in the region. We have seen that in Quintana Roo they are very meticulous with the tourist development. At the moment, we only have a large train, the Chepe, in the north, and as a country we need to have a more varied offer, “added Hernández Delgado.

Self-financing project

According to the information that has been disseminated by the state government, the main source of payment that the train will have is the revenue obtained by the concessionaire for the fare charged (even without an estimate in this regard).
Questioned on the subject, the director of the Mexican Institute of Infrastructure Development (Imexdi), Edmundo Gamas Buentello, stated as a success the fact of betting on a single tender that includes all the elements for the development of the new train (so-called key tenders in hand), because it avoids possible “vices or complications” of bidding separately and under the modality of public-private partnership.

“There is no doubt that, if the project is well structured, the appetite of the consulting companies, construction companies and train operators, national and international will be visible. The most important thing is to generate enough information to be able to start your bidding. We must not lose sight of the fact that it will be located in an area with a large influx of international tourists, “added the Imexdi director.
From his point of view, a first “great message” has been sent suggesting that fiscal resources will not be used to develop the train, which preliminarily qualifies with high social and economic profitability, but also “it is good news” because it generates again the international interest that passenger trains return in Mexico, now in the hands of a state government.

“I hope that Quintana Roo becomes a spearhead in major tenders under the public-private partnership scheme, because that would be a good message to all investors to look in detail at the portfolios of state projects. In this matter, there is really very little activity, like a desalination plant in Sonora that is underway, but the opportunity is great, “said the head of the institute.

Portfolio

From this month, the Cancun-Tulum train is already included in the Mexico Projects portfolio, a platform launched last year by the federal government to report on the progress of each of the infrastructure works that are being developed or developed in the country.
The information included was provided by the Strategic Projects Agency of the state of Quintana Roo.

Rehabilitation of road network, necessary

Puebla, Pue. The lack of maintenance and rehabilitation in the highway network of the state has generated that more than 30% urgently requires a full intervention, but between 9,000 and 11,000 million pesos are needed, said the president of the Association of Construction Companies, Jesús Alarcón Cardoso.
He said that for more than six years, the necessary care has not been taken so that the communication channels are in optimal conditions.
He said that the association presented a study to each of the candidates for the governorship in which it is evident that the local roads of the seven regions of the state require intensive work of rehabilitation.

In the diagnosis, explained, 5% of the roads are in perfect condition, 45% are susceptible to rehabilitation, 50% are about to get lost, the total road value of the state is 52,000 million pesos, and there is a risk of getting lost 26,000 million pesos for lack of daily maintenance that require.
The most damaged roads are located in all regions: Sierra Norte, Northeast, Serdán Valley, Angelópolis, Atlixco, Sierra Negra, Tehuacán and the Mixteca Poblana.
Among them, Zacatlán-La Cumbre, Zacapoaxtla-Cuetzalan, La Colorada-Acatlan, Azumbilla-Tlacotepec and Acuexcomac are in terrible condition, just to name a few.

He commented that in the investment by identified area of road stretches is that of the North and Northeast Sierra, with 856 million pesos for 17 sections, Serdán Valley, with 164 million for nine sections, and Angelópolis, with 917 million pesos for nine stretches.
In Atlixco and Matamoros, 143 million pesos must be applied for five tranches; in the Mixteca Poblana they require 265 million for seven stretches, and for Tehuacán and Sierra Negra the investment should be 364 million pesos for four tranches.

Also, Alarcón Cardoso warned that these poor conditions of some important stretches of road affect logistics activities in the transfer of goods or mobility from one population to another, especially in the interior of the state. (With information from Miguel Hernández)