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Durango Gov. Jorge Herrera Caldera and President Enrique Peña Nieto officially opened the Durango-Mazatlán Superhighway on Thursday, bringing a successful conclusion to an infrastructure project 12 years in the making.
Experts predict that the $2.2 billion highway — which features 115 bridges and 61 tunnels through the Sierra Madre mountains — will reduce travel time between Durango and Sinaloa from six to just two and a half hours. The centerpiece of the project is the Baluarte Bridge, which towers 3,688 feet over the valley floor, making it the highest cable-suspension bridge in the world.
“We will build more roads, more highways, more ports and more railway lines, because this is what our country’s economic and social development depends on,” Peña Nieto said, adding that 1.3 billion pesos will be spent in the coming years, from both public and private sources, to make this happen.
Herrera said that the opening the new highway represented a historic moment for the country, adding that it would boost the economies of seven of Mexico’s 30 states, including Zacatecas, Nuevo León, Chihuahua, Durango and Coahuila. He said that the 28-million-peso project represents the finest road investment in Mexico’s history.
Herrera’s administration has invested heavily in roadworks since he took office in 2010.
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