Puerto Morelos begins mobility audit to reduce federal highway accidents

Puerto Morelos, Q.R. — The municipality of Puerto Morelos has begun a mobility audit to reduce accidents along the federal highway. The audit, which is already partly complete, is being done by members of a recently formed Mobility and Road Safety Committee.

During the Thursday meeting, the Secretariats of Tourism, General Secretariat of the City Council, as well as the Delegation of the Quintana Roo Mobility Institute in the municipality were integrated into the Committee.

In March, two people died after a dump truck rolled in Puerto Morelos spilling hot asphalt onto a tourist vehicle.

The new members were integrated during the Second Ordinary Session of the Technical Committee on Mobility and Road Safety of Puerto Morelos Thursday. During the meeting, they discussed the need to consider strategies to reduce the number of accidents on the section of Federal 307 Highway that crosses the municipal seat.

The Committee’s alternate president, Aldo Alaniz Jiménez González, presented part of Quintana Roo’s Comprehensive Road Safety Program which included a mobility audit at key junctions. These key junction include the entrance to Bahia Petempich, the entrance to Ruta de los Cenotes and the entrance to the Crococun area as well as the Esperanza roundabout and its return routes.

In April, a tourist van collided with a water truck during a highway U-turn in Puerto Morelos.

A road safety audit will also be conducted at the ADO bus stop on Federal Highway 307, among other points, he said.

He explained that the study presents the high-risk sections of the federal highway and the number of accidents from previous years, as well as traffic flows at different times. This will allow for the necessary proposals to be made in order to present adaptation projects such as speed reduction zones, signage and improved lighting, among other points.

In April, one person was killed after colliding with the back of a bus turning off the highway in Puerto Morelos.

Likewise, the need to inspect public transportation bays to avoid traffic jams was raised, as was the involvement of the National Guard and the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications, and Transportation (SICT) in the Committee, federal bodies of vital importance for improving mobility along this stretch of highway.

At this same session, it was agreed to incorporate the Ministry of Tourism, the General Secretariat of the City Council, and the Imoveqroo office in Puerto Morelos into the municipality’s Technical Committee on Mobility and Road Safety.