MEXICO Town (open) .- The New York Times, the main newspaper in the United States, yesterday posted a report that collects the delays, expense overruns, poor arranging and hazards that have marked the building of the Maya coach, a of the major megaprojects of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s sexennium.
The New York newspaper indicated that, to date, “the governing administration has by now exceeded its funds with out finishing any of the 7 planned roadways”, and that the charge of the function could attain 20 billion bucks, “virtually three occasions the initial estimate.
The report also highlighted that, in order to produce the is effective by the conclude of the six-year mandate – as promised by López Obrador -, the governing administration has minimized the “ambitions” of the Maya Prepare: the railway will no extended pass by way of the centers of Mérida or of Campeche and the improvement poles have been reduce, which sought to reduce the economic stress of railway functions.
The NYT pointed out that due to the fact the commencing of its 6-year term, the National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur) has transformed the layout of the Maya train seven situations, whose funding plan has turn into fully federal, when it was at first proposed that 90% of the investments would be personal.
Relating to the controversial Area 5, for which Fonatur has faced countless challenges, the NYT pointed out that the federal governing administration has made the decision to construct it in 112 kilometers of jungle, which in addition to ecological injury would pose risks to the task by itself, as the subsoil it is fragmented into various caves over which 217-ton trains will move.
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