What investment will federal highways have by 2023 in Mexico?
The investment for the maintenance of the federal roads for next year it will be 16 thousand 600 million pesosunderlined the head of the Office of the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT), Jorge Nuno Lara
The official pointed out that by 2023 there will be more than nine thousand 500 million pesos for federal highways and more than seven billion pesos for conservation contracts, which exceeds the 15 thousand 996 million pesos of the post. for that year.
“In order to improve federal toll-free highways, the Undersecretary of Infrastructure has decided to move from reactive conservation to preventive and predictive conservation”, he assured during the inauguration of the VII Seminar of the Asphalt / Conservation of road infrastructurearranged in Lion, Guanajuatoas part of the 25th anniversary of the Mexican Asphalt Association, A. vs. (AMAAC).
Highways are the engine of the economy
Nuño Lara said that highways are essential to the success of all other sectors of the economy, since road assets, according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), has a value of one trillion 375 billion pesos.
In 2021, Mexico’s GDP was 26 trillion 273 billion pesos and the relationship with the value of highways meant 5.22%.
More than 2.2 billion passengers and more than 513 million tonnes of goods and merchandise travel on the motorways; 96.4% of all passengers and 68.5% of national cargo transit through the country’s road network, he added.
To support the conference magistral con el tema “Sostenibilidad para una conservation segura de la infraestructura carretera”, el también subsecretario de Infraestructura de la SICT resaltó that, in the present administration, between 2019 and 2021, 52 thousand 198 million pesos will be invested in the preservation of 40,516 kilometers of toll-free motorways.
Source: El Heraldo De Mexico
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