Investment in Durango and Mazatlan, the colossus that will join 2 oceans

Investment in MAZATLAN-DURANGO, MEXICO

 

For those who lived their childhood in the 1950s in the Sinaloa sierra, the new Mazatlán-Durango highway is a dream of modernity about to materialize. In those years, the current Free Road was built and the astonishment of an entire generation awoke.
If someone had told them that they would arrive from the port to the city of Durango in two and a half hours, on a comfortable and safe journey, they would not have believed it.
Do not say for the inhabitants of the capital of the neighboring state, for whom the proximity to the beach will be more than a fulfilled longing.
Considered the largest highway investment in Mexican history, at a cost of 28.6 billion pesos, 15 thousand 114 million in Sinaloa and 13 thousand 486 million in Durango, the highway will not only leave behind a tortuous road full of deadly curves , Dizziness and accidents, but is expected to be the economic detonator in the north of the country, completing the transoceanic axis that will cross from Mazatlan to the border city of Matamoros, thus linking Asian markets with the eastern United States.

After three sexennials, three state governments, more than 11 years of construction and repeated postponements for completion, the highway will finally be inaugurated today.

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Designed to meet the needs of international trade, the superhighway, as it is also known, will have the effect of forming a new macro-region in northern Mexico, with states that share common problems, such as insecurity, but also unique opportunities to interconnect In a commercial and industrial corridor that will change the way of doing business and trade routes in the international arena. Among the benefits that are projected when opening the road, in its total length of 230 kilometers, includes the reduction of 6 to 2.5 hours in the car route from Durango to Mazatlan; And 10 to 4 hours for freight trucks. It will be a route whose zone of influence will encompass.

Sinaloa, Durango, Zacatecas, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Chihuahua and Tamaulipas, to unite for the first time the country crosswise and not only from the periphery to the center, with what definitively transforms the territorial configuration of Mexico.

A challenge of national engineering

Cataloged as a feat of national engineering, the modern motorway consists of 115 bridges and 61 tunnels. And they are not common structures, among them stands the Baluarte Bicentennial Bridge, winner of the Guinness record as the highest cable-stayed bridge in the world, overcoming a ravine of more than 402 meters, which marks the division between Durango and Sinaloa.
Built on the Devil's Spine, a gorge that in its name carries the danger, the Bastion had to break through the Sierra Madre Occidental with the work of over a thousand workers.
Another unique cut-off infrastructure is the El Sinaloense tunnel, located at kilometer 172. It is considered the most "intelligent" tunnel in the national territory and the second longest in the country with 2.78 kilometers, only after the Maxitúnel de Acapulco, with 170 meters more in length. The tunnel has lighting and signals with LED signs, as well as traffic lights on both sides.
Both structures were inaugurated by former President Felipe Calderón in 2012.