The Mayan Train will link five states on the Yucatan Peninsula and southeast Mexico: Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Campeche, Chiapas and Yucatan.
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Maya Train rails arrive in Progreso from China as new concerns...
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.
The company that built the collapsed Mexico City subway line is...
The company responsible for the construction of the faulty L12 subway line in Mexico City is also working on the Maya Train in Yucatán...
Mexico puts La Plancha park back on the table
The federal government will consider building a large park at La Plancha, but it has not said whether it will follow a 200-page master...
AMLO to visit Yucatán and kick off construction of three new...
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will visit the Yucatán Peninsula this weekend to kick off the construction of three new sections of the Tren...
Court order halts deforestation and new Tren Maya construction
Last week a judge in Yucatán issued a ruling which halted any new construction of the Tren Maya project.
The ruling only barrs construction requiring...
Tren Maya will use solar power under new green-energy approach
Aiming to use solar power for the so-called Mayan Train, Mexico is crafting a plan to promote state-backed green-energy generation.
Rogelio Jimenez Pons, director-general of...
Tren Maya project suddenly stopped in its tracks by judge
Yucatan's fourth district court has temporarily halted construction on the Tren Maya rail project.
The order came after a judge ruled in favor of three...
Train project threatens to destroy neighborhood at La Plancha
Residents living across from Artículo 123 park in Mérida's La Plancha area were given some bad news from a Tren Maya representative.
The envoy informed...
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...
Tren Maya leads to amazing discovery of over 8000 archaeological remains...
Thousands of ancient artifacts and structures belonging to the ancient Maya civilization have been uncovered along all four stretches of the Tren Maya project.
https://twitter.com/TrenMayaMX/status/1351193334778359812
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AMLO hands Tren Maya to army, touts its economic benefits
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is putting the Mexican army to work again.
AMLO says the army will run the Mayan Train project and...
United Nations objects to Mayan Train station at La Plancha
A Mayan Train station at La Plancha would contaminate underground water systems with oils, fuels, sanitary wastewater and grease, a United Nations body warned.
UN-Habitat...
Mexico voids Mayan Train bid for 75 miles of tracks between...
Mexico voided a tender process where just one bidder proposed to build the Mayan Train between Cancun and Tulum.
The bid was offered by...
Light-rail loop in Cancun will link with Mayan Train
Federal and Quintana Roo governments have collaborated on a plan to build an above-ground light-rail project in Cancun and then linking it to the...
Indigenous people complain that ‘Mayan Train’ steals both their land and...
The only Maya trait the "Mayan Train" project will have is the cheap labor and services that inhabitants will offer tourists in the future,...
Mexico scraps plans for Mayan Train tunnel at La Plancha
The National Fund for Tourism Promotion (Fonatur) has withdrawn plans to run a train tunnel through the center of Merida to bring passengers to...
Mayan Train will be diesel, not electric, government says
With an eye to cutting the budget, the Mayan Train will be powered by diesel rather than electricity, federal officials announced.
No mention was made...
AMLO wakes up in Merida, starts early-morning meeting with armed forces,...
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is in Merida today, part of a road trip that takes place as Mexico gradually begins to ease coronavirus...
AMLO to visit Merida, other cities, despite coronavirus contingencies
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is planning a tour of southeast Mexico next week despite the continuing coronavirus spread.
Flying commercially, AMLO will visit...
Mayan Train contract is a slam dunk for firm that already...
Mexico will likely directly grant the contract for the fourth phase of its Mayan Train project to the country's largest construction company without a...
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...
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...
Bids coming in to build Merida’s section of the Mayan Train
Contractors have officially been invited to bid for the job of building the Mayan Train line between Campeche and Izamal, including a 15-kilometer branch line that reaches Merida.
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...
