Cancun, Q.R. — Work on Cancun’s highly anticipated Nichupté vehicular bridge continues to advance reports the State Strategic Projects Agency (Agepro). The city’s much-needed lagoon overpass will connect the Cancun Hotel Zone with the mainland.
Once finished, the bridge will open up a new traffic route to drain the over-congested hotel zone. Agepro General Director José Alberto Alonso Ovando, toured the massive construction project Thursday.
“The Nichupté vehicular bridge represents a crucial step forward to strengthen the road infrastructure of Quintana Roo, ensuring an orderly sustainable and safe development for the region. Our commitment is clear: to provide solutions that improve the quality of life of the people of Quintana Roo,” he reported in an after-tour statement.
The multi-billion peso project is being built by Ingenieros Civiles Asociados (ICA) and overseen by the Agencia de Proyectos Estratégicos (Agepro) in coordination with the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT).
Alberto Alonso says the project is an integral part of the development of Quintana Roo, promoted by Governor Mara Lezama, who seeks to improve mobility and connectivity in the state.
During the tour, which covered the area of the land junction at the roundabout of Kabah Avenue with Colosio and Tulum, the completion of the slabs and the compaction of the dirt road on the access ramp of Kabah Avenue was verified.
In addition, in the area above the bridge, progress was observed in the assembly of the concrete slab, which will be prepared to receive the asphalt layer in the next stages, he said.
In the lagoon area, the project is advancing through a construction system with barges where progress has been made in the construction of headers, beams and the pouring of the slab in the section between supports 199 to 202. Work is still pending between supports 198 to 152, he added.
Alberto Alonso did not provide a completed percentage of the overall progress of the Nichupté vehicular bridge. The last official percentage completion update was released in April when the SICT (Secretaría de Infraestructura, Comunicaciones y Transportes) reported the project around 40 percent finished.
The bridge was scheduled for completion in early 2024, however, due to unforeseen complications, the most pressing of which has been the discovery of an underwater cave in excess of 100 meters in depth in the lagoon, officials have not provided a completion date.