Maya Train: Sections 6 and 7 are doubtful to be completed before AMLO leaves

Sections 6 and 7 of the Maya Train will not be ready to be inaugurated before the end of the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. And with just over a month left until the end of AMLO’s six-year term, there is still no track on several kilometers of both sections and even the stations report less than 50% progress.

Josué Palomo, a businessman and member of the Mexican Chamber of the Construction Industry (CMIC) and treasurer of the Employers’ Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex) in Chetumal, says that the project will not be ready until mid-2025.

“We were clear from the beginning that the project would not be completed on the agreed dates; we were never consulted and our knowledge of the orography of the area and the land was ignored,” he said in an interview with El Economista.

The businessman assures that the general degree of progress in the southern area of ​​Quintana Roo is between 65 and 70%, but there are specific points where the works cannot advance due to problems of subsidence or recent floods that were not foreseen during the studies.

One of those points is the Diego Rojas neighborhood, a low-lying area that has historically flooded in Bacalar, but with the construction of the Mayan Train, a kind of dam was created that kept around a thousand homes under water in July of this year, after an atypical rain.

Although the Maya Train will not be ready on the dates announced by President AMLO, the business community in southern Quintana Roo has already prepared an investment project for stormwater infrastructure and the repair of streets and avenues in Chetumal that have been partially destroyed by the construction of this federal project.

The same repaving needs are present in Bacalar and Mahahual, so the project that CMIC and Coparmex have developed is for around 3 billion pesos (160 million dollars), and they are asking Governor Mara Lezama to help manage this sum with the federal government.

As reported by REPORTUR.mxthe highest official in charge of the Maya Train, General Oscar Lozano, assured that Trips to Tulum from Playa del Carmen would begin in September of this year (Maya Train will arrive in Tulum from Playa del Carmen in September).