New images of the Mayan Train spark imagination
Here are the designs that serve as an expression of the Maya Train’s grandiose ambitions.
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Maya Train rails arrive in Progreso from China as new concerns loom
The load weighed in at 7005 tons and was only the first of 14 expected shipments that will deliver an estimated 150,409 tons of material to the peninsula.
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The company that built the collapsed Mexico City subway line is now working on the Maya Train
The company responsible for the construction of the faulty L12 subway line in Mexico City is also working on the Maya Train in Yucatán and Quintana Roo. The L12 subway line in Mexico City collapsed just this morning, killing 24 and injuring dozens. According to several reports, the L12 line presented serious structural flaws dating…
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It’s a buyer’s market in an overbuilt Riviera Maya
The Riviera Maya — a 1999 rebrand of the “Cancún-Tulum corridor” — has seen huge levels of residential development. So much so, in fact, that buyers have gained an advantage. Despite anecdotal accounts that the pandemic has persuaded hundreds to follow their Caribbean dreams to Tulum and Playa del Carmen, a vast supply of new…
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Judge in Yucatán interrupts work on Maya Train
A federal judge in Yucatán on Thursday granted a provisional suspension against the construction of the Tren Maya. The Third District Court cited a lack of both transparency and consultation with indigenous communities in the Maya Train’s path, said the Kanan human rights group. Inhabitants of Mérida, Izamal and Chocolá filed an injunction against Fonatur, the…
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Indigenous people complain that ‘Mayan Train’ steals both their land and their name
The only Maya trait the “Mayan Train” project will have is the cheap labor and services that inhabitants will offer tourists in the future, writes Esteban Suarez in Al Dia. “In the end, we always end up cleaning their toilets,” Manuel Puc, a rural worker who lives off the cultivation of his land, told El…
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Mexican rights commission calls for halt to Mayan Train
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission has demanded the government halt construction of the Mayan Train railroad, saying non-essential work on the ambitious tourism project risked coronavirus exposure by vulnerable indigenous groups. The body cited “possible health, personal safety and life damages to inhabitants in the region.” The 900-mile Mayan Train, which will connect the five…
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Is the Mayan Train ‘essential’ during a pandemic?
Around 200 organizations and 60 activists demanded President Andras Manuel Lopez Obrador suspend work on the Mayan Train. But while “non-essential” activities are banned for the time being, government officials intend to carry on the massive infrastructure project despite the global coronavirus pandemic. “It is worrying that in the face of the health emergency that…
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Mayan Train and other projects threatened by lagging economy
Plans for gleaming railway stations plaster the walls of the “map room” at Mexico’s National Fund for Tourism Development (Fonatur) — grand central for the Mayan Train. This is one of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s signature projects to kick-start the economy of the poor southeast. The tourist, passenger and cargo railway around the Yucatán peninsula…
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Mayan Train will travel underground in Merida en route to La Plancha
Merida, Yucatan — The Mayan Train will travel through 4 kilometers / 2.5 miles of tunnel before reaching La Plancha, said Fonatur’s director, Rogelio Jiménez Pons. The announcement cements the federal government’s intention for the La Plancha site, where an ecological and cultural central park had been planned. The exact site of the tunnel, and…
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After small turnout for referendum, AMLO declares huge public support for Mayan Train
Citizens in five Mexican states impacted by the planned Mayan Train have given the megaproject the go-ahead. Although the influx of voters was small, a majority of the attendees were apparently in support of the Mayan Train, the government said. Just 100,000 people of the region’s more than 11 million voted. The government reported overwhelming…
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Indigenous communities ‘unanimously’ in favor of Mayan Train, officials claim
The first half of a weekend referendum ended “by consensus and without opinion against” the Mayan Train, the presidency reported. After a dialogue with the federal government, indigenous communities’ proposals and needs will be incorporated and addressed in the project, which aims to trigger the sustainable development of the Yucatan Peninsula, the Mexican presidency said…
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Mayan Train hangs in the balance as voting begins
An Associated Press report casts doubt on this weekend’s Mayan Train referendum, which will decide the fate of the massive project. Residents of 84 municipalities on the Yucatan Peninsula are voting on President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s ambitious infrastructure project. Indigenous communities and authorities in Tunkás, Tixpéhual, Dzitás and Chihimilá, all points where the train…
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Senate rejects tourist tax meant to help fund Mayan Train
Mexico’s Senate has voted down a colossal tax hike, previously approved by the House of Congress, to fund the Mayan Train. The proposal would have increased the immigration services tax by 388% and would have impacted both Mexican nationals with relatives abroad and potential tourists. Legislators were under heavy pressure from business groups worried that…
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Mexico seeks 388% hike in tourist tax as funds for Mayan Train come due
A bill making its way through the federal legislature would increase the immigration services tax by 388%, partly to pay for the Mayan Train. A separate non-resident tax would rise 58% under the measure. If approved, Mexico would charge foreign tourists one of the world’s highest fees. The lower house of Congress already passed the…
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Mexico wants to run a tourist train through its Mayan heartland — should it?
Big projects like the Mayan Train take time and planning, says Gabriel Diaz Montemayor
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Mayan Train moves ahead as project engineers are selected
The National Tourism Development Fund (Fonatur) awarded Senermex the job of carrying out the Mayan Train project’s basic engineering studies. The consortium previously won the national tender to undertake the Mexico City-Toluca train’s underlying engineering studies. Senermex will be paid nearly 300 million pesos / US$15.5 million for the work. The task involves creating cartographic,…
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Fewer visitors at Mayan archaeological sites and museums in Yucatan
Fewer tourists are visiting Yucatan’s are visiting archaeological zones and official museums this year, said the National Institute of Anthropology and History. By June, INAH counted nearly 256,000 visitors, which is 15,562 fewer tourists than last year at this time. This reverses a gradual, upward trend that began in 2013. Chichen Itza remains by far…
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Mayan Train revision goes ahead, cutting Valladolid-Cancun link
The federal government has decided to go ahead with a proposed revision to the Mayan Train route, removing a direct path between Valladolid and Cancun. Instead, Valladolid will link to Cobá and Tulum. The change saves 5.5 billion pesos because it eliminates the need to negotiate with the Kantunil-Cancun highway’s concessionaire, ICA. Officials denied a…
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Investment analyst doubts Mayan Train will ever be finished
The president’s Mayan Train project isn’t likely ever to be finished, a bank analyst said.
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Misreading the story of climate change and the Maya
Maya civilization didn’t end when it mysteriously ‘collapsed,’ as over 6 million Maya living today will attest.
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Mayan Train preliminary costs leap 710% to nearly a billion pesos
The president’s rail project on Yucatan Peninsula is already a runaway train. The cost of the pre-investment studies and master plan, necessary to build the Mayan Train, increased 710 percent in five months, going from 120 million to 972 million pesos, according to the Fonatur, the National Fund for Tourism Promotion. The new estimates, announced…
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Mayan Train’s fast track raises concerns
Less ambitious train projects elsewhere have taken longer than Lopez Obrador will be in office.
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Mayan Train could cost up to 10 times more than estimated: study
The price tag for the Mayan Train may be 10 times more than previously estimated, according to the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness.
That’s all for now
That’s all for now