Bacalar, Q.R. — The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) has authorized the expansion of the North Coastal Highway. The municipality project has been approved for the addition of 10 kilometers that will be constructed 100 meters from the lagoon shore.
According to information from the federal agency, the two-lane North Coast highway for the Bacalar Lagoon was authorized after four years of processing. The expansion project has been promoted by the federal government’s Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications, and Transportation (SICT).
The Secretaría de Infraestructura, Comunicaciones y Transportes (SICT) submitted approval for the project in December of 2020, but had it put on hold in June 2022. A new evaluation was conducted in May of this year that saw the project finally approved.
The data reveals that the two-lane highway will be built from Villas Pehaltún to Cayuco Maya parallel to the Laguna de los Siete Colores. It will also have connecting access points to the federal 307 highway. According to the SICT, the projected cost for the 10 kilometer long expansion is approximately 65 million pesos.
In 2022, the state government, through the Ministry of Public Works, invested 49.9 million in the rehabilitation of 3.7 kilometers the coastal highway between the Chetumal-Cancún federal highway junction (Cenote Azul) to Calle Cero.
Information on when the new highway expansion project will begin was not provided.
