President Pena Nieto Inaugurates $2.3B Mazatlan-Durango Highway Murry Page - The Mazatlan Messenger
go to original October 19, 2013

"Road links are crucial to enabling Mexico to thrive and increase and democratize its productivity," said Peña Nieto at Thursday's inauguration. (Presidency of the Republic)

The 227.3 kilometer (136 mile) highway cost a total of 28.6 billion pesos ($2.28 billion). 15.114 billion pesos ($1.209 billion) were spent on the Sinaloa side of the highway and 13.486 billion pesos ($1.079) were spent on the Durango side.

The Mazatlan-Durango highway will have a positive financial impact not only on the states of Sinaloa and Durango, but also the states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Zacatecas, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, which, together with Sinaloa and Durango, comprise what is now referred to as the Northern Economic Corridor.

With the opening of the superhighway Mazatlán will become the gateway for products moving from Asia to the east coast of the United States. The drive from Mazatlán to San Antonio, Texas will now be reduced to six hours.

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Mazatlan-Durango (Ramon De Leon)

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