| | |  News from Around Banderas Bay | September 2008 
Heavy Rains Wreak Havoc on Jalisco Highways
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| | Crews are working round the clock to get a section of the Mascota-Puerto Vallarta highway back open to traffic. (Guadalajara Reporter) | | |
Heavy rains have been wreaking havoc on Jalisco infrastructure this month, keeping road crews working 'round-the-clock.
Problems ranged from dangerous potholes on Puerto Vallarta roads to a recent mud slide that took out the right-hand lane of Highway 200, to gaping holes and weakened flood walls that shut down sections of Highway 70 near San Sebastian last week.
According to a recent article in the Guadalajara Reporter:
 | Sinkholes and mud slides forced the State Department of Transportation to close part of the Mascota-Puerto Vallarta highway on Tuesday. Until Monday evening, state authorities kept the highway open despite significant damage to the asphalt between Mascota and Las Palmas. But when unrelenting rains loosened an embankment and covered the road in mud near San Sebastian, officials closed the section of highway to all traffic.
Governor Emilio Gonzalez rejected speculation that the sinkholes were the result of shoddy construction work last year when parts of the highway were re laid
"You know that all highways require a maturation period," he said. "This is not unusual. Paved roads require time to settle."
The governor couldn’t say when the highway would reopen, noting only that the closure was "temporary," and that crews were working round the clock to resurface the road.
Meanwhile, in the ejido of Maltaraña, on the Michoacan border at Lake Chapala, the Lerma river sloshed over the town’s flood walls on Tuesday causing minor damage to residences. The area remained on flood advisory throughout the week. |  |
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