Good news and bad news. Tomorrow the new section of the Guadalajara to Colima highway will be put into operation, which will help reduce the trip to the capital Jalisco by up to half an hour. However, it was also reported that it won’t be until December 2023 that the works on the second section of the Vía Corta to Puerto Vallarta, from Compostela to Las Varas, will be completed.
At the federal government’s morning press conference, the director of Banobras, Jorge Mendoza Sánchez, reported that the construction of the mountain section of the Guadalajara – Colima highway, which runs from Atenquique to the San Marcos toll booth, has been completed. It is a project that began in 2013 and will help avoid a complicated zone of curves, especially for the transport of cargo from the port of Manzanillo. Entrepreneurs have been anxious for years to finish these works to improve the transfer of goods.
“Tomorrow a stretch of highway and a stretch of mountain will come into operation, of the Guadalajara Colima highway, a debt that was owed to the states of Jalisco and Colima,” explained the federal official.
“This was the construction of a new body of two lanes, of circulation, from kilometer 103 to 120, it has a length of 16.49 kilometers, it has 14 bridges, seven special structures”, explained the federal official
In 2019 the work was stopped due to judicial appeals filed by several residents in the area and that was finally withdrawn at the beginning of this year.
It is stated that the work will generate benefits for 19,000 inhabitants of nearby communities and will facilitate the passage of 15,000 vehicles daily.
Although it was announced as good news that the new section of the Guadalajara to Colima highway will be put into operation starting tomorrow, the director of Banobras, Jorge Mendoza Sánchez, also pointed out that it won’t be until December 2023 when the second section to Puerto Vallarta is completed.
The official stressed that this second section goes hand in hand with an adjoining road construction from Compostela to the Tepic airport that will help reduce transfer times. This work was originally going to be finished in 2017 and travel time from Guadalajara to Vallarta would be reduced by up to an hour and a half.
The project began in 2011 and it was said it would be finished in 2015.
