| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | August 2009 
President Calderón Addresses Nation on Infrastructure during Third State of the Union Address
 Presidencia de la República
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August 27, 2009
| | President Felipe Calderón | |
Mexico, like other countries, is suffering the consequences of one of the worst economic crises the world has ever seen.
Yet despite this, we will continue investing in the country's infrastructure this year as never before. In doing so, we have created tens of thousands of jobs for Mexicans.
Thanks to the Federal Government Infrastructure Program, this year we can share a number of achievements with you. For example, we finished Arco Norte, a superhighway that links the Pacific to the Gulf, meaning that you do not have to go through Mexico City.
Now, travelers and haulage contractors will be able to take the Querétaro highway, go through the states of Hidalgo, Mexico and Tlaxcala and end up on the Puebla highway, saving time, money and unnecessary inconvenience.
We have done the same with other key roads that will save travelers and haulage contractors time and money. For example, we also finished the new Puebla-Perote highway which now provides better links between Puebla, Tlaxcala and Veracruz than ever before. This will soon be followed by the Jalapa flyover and the flyover in the Port of Veracruz, the first stage of which has already been completed.
Or the great Mazatlán-Durango Highway, the most ambitious work of highway engineering that will provide the first proper link to Mexico from the Pacific Coast in Sinaloa to the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in Tamaulipas.
Or the new road that takes you from Mexico City to Tuxpan, Veracruz in less than four hours.
Federal Government's Highway Program has broken all previous records: three thousand kilometers of highway and over $100 billion pesos spent in less than three years, and we want to build even more.
Tenders are already being accepted for the highway that will reduce the distance between Oaxaca and Huatulco, not to mention the numerous other works, bridges, overpasses and country roads we are building up and down the country.
We are improving Mexico’s links with the world, because we are modernizing its ports, such as those in Guayman, Manzanillo, Mazatlán, Lázaro Cárdenas, in Michoacán, Altamira in Tamaulipas and many others.
We are also promoting the modernization of our airports. We modernized the airports in Toluca and Cancún, for example, and during that period, the new airport in the Sea of Cortez, in the state of Sonora, for which a concession was granted, was also built.
This year we gave the inhabitants of the Metropolitan Zone of the Valley of Mexico the Suburban train, which goes from the heart of the city in Buenavista to Cuautitlán in the state of Mexico. And thanks to the Suburban train, 20 million passengers have been able to reduce their traveling time from three hours to under half an hour.
I know we are going through a difficult time as far as the economy is concerned but I also know that through the efforts of Federal Government we will pull through, which we are already doing.
Through the largest Infrastructure Program in history, we are promoting economic recovery and creating the jobs Mexicans need to live better. |
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