Cancún, QR, December 31. This Sunday, the last day of the year, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will conclude a frenetic month of December, during which he completed strategic projects for his administration with the launch of the second stage of the Maya Train. In what will be his second day aboard this train, he will travel across a large part of the Yucatán Peninsula, from Cancún to Palenque .
As part of the series of inaugurations scheduled for the second half of December, the section between the capital of Campeche and one of the most important archaeological sites of the Mayan civilization: Palenque, will be opened. This will mark the opening of the Escárcega, Balancán, Tenosique, and Palenque stations.
With an investment of 515 billion pesos, the Maya Train, along with the Interoceanic Corridor and the Dos Bocas refinery, are part of its strategic projects in states historically marginalized by public and private investment.
Obsessed with meeting deadlines, the technical complexity of the section inaugurated today—which involved building a bridge to cross the Usumacinta River—put him behind the first stage, which began on December 15.
The implementation of this second phase will connect Cancún, the main national and international tourist attraction in the southeast, with one of the country's main archaeological sites. In other words, the project to combine the appeal of Mexico's beaches with the tourist interest generated by its pre-Hispanic heritage will begin to materialize. By the time the third phase opens, 21 archaeological sites will be connected along the entire route.
The work will be completed in February.
The federal government plans to complete construction of the Maya Train next February , when military engineers finish sections 5 south, 6, and 7. This will connect southern Quintana Roo, from Cancún, Playa del Carmen, Tulum, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Bacalar, Chetumal, and Xpujil.
Determined to revive passenger trains, just a week ago López Obrador inaugurated another of his administration's major rail projects: the so-called Trans-Isthmus Corridor.
