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The Mayan Train will link five states on the Yucatan Peninsula and southeast Mexico: Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Campeche, Chiapas and Yucatan.

City joins fight against Mayan Train tunnel, backs park at La...

Merida, Yucatan — Mayor Renán Barrera Concha said that the Merida City Council will join local civic groups to oppose a 4-kilometer underground train...

Mayan Train will travel underground in Merida en route to La...

Merida, Yucatan — The Mayan Train will travel through 4 kilometers / 2.5 miles of tunnel before reaching La Plancha, said Fonatur's director, Rogelio...

Mayan Train construction set to begin at the end of April

Work on Mexico’s Mayan Train line is expected to begin at the end of April, according to the president of the National Fund for...

After small turnout for referendum, AMLO declares huge public support for...

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...

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...

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...

Manzanero endorses Mayan Train as new referendum approaches

Without ambiguities, trova legend Armando Manzanero said that "the biggest mistake would be for our people to prevent the Mayan Train to take place." The...

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...

AMLO to skip Merida on his next trip to Yucatan

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will arrive in Yucatan again next weekend on a three-day work tour to deal exclusively with indigenous issues. This time,...

UN supports Mayan Train, but calls for ‘comprehensive plan’

The United Nations expressed its support Monday for the Mayan Train, one of Mexico's pet infrastructure projects.

Mayan Train line expands with 3 new station stops

It's time to re-draw the Mayan Train rail map. Again. The giant rail system will stop in Quintana Roo's capital city of Chetumal, said FONATUR's...

Mexico wants to run a tourist train through its Mayan heartland...

Big projects like the Mayan Train take time and planning, says Gabriel Diaz Montemayor

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...

Conservation group makes case for green space at La Plancha

Activist promotes a Gran Parque at La Plancha, saying it would serve more people than the Mayan Train.

Proposed: Turn Calle 47 into a pedestrian-only zone

Another proposal to turn a busy Centro street into a pedestrian path has been floated, this one linking to a possible Mayan Train station.

Indigenous communities face down Mayan Train promoters

The Mayan Train benefits only the investors, not indigenous communities, opposition leaders told a team sent by the federal government to promote the project. Anti-train...

Mayan Train is long on ambitions, short on investors

Even more difficult than building new tracks in the jungle is finding enough investors to finance the Mayan Train. Fonatur opened bidding for engineering work...

Mayan Train official appears to step back from La Plancha takeover

Merida, Yucatan — The Mayan Train coordinator who announced a proposal to roll its rail cars through the Centro and into the historic train...

Plan to place Mayan Train station at La Plancha called dangerous

Merida, Yucatan — The Mayan Train will enter the Centro and make La Plancha a station stop, the federal government said. It would be Merida's second...

New Merida airport, linking to Maya Train, is proposed

A new international airport, in a location that would link it to the Mayan Train, was floated by Fonatur.

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...

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.

Mayan Train route may be shortened, saving 5 billion pesos

A revision to the Mayan Train route could chop 5 billion pesos in costs. The cuts would take away a direct link between Cancun and...

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...
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