Nuevo León inaugurates first phase of US $1.2B Interserrana Highway

Nuevo León Governor Samuel García precocious inaugurated the archetypal signifier of the Interserrana Highway, 1 of the biggest progressive infrastructure projects successful Mexico, with 22 cardinal pesos (nearly US $1.2 billion) allocated for its construction.

Phase 1 of the project featured the operation of the San Roberto Bridge connected Federal Highway 58 successful the confederate Nuevo León municipality of Galeana. The 853-meter-long span — which García inaugurated connected Sept. 26 — is comprised of 2 220-meter-long ramps and a 400-meter cardinal span, and outgo 450 cardinal pesos (US $24.3 million).

The Interserrana Highway task features the modernization and enlargement of the 87-kilometer-long, two-lane Highway 58, converting it into a four-lane road linking Federal Highway 57 with Federal Highway 85, some of which question from Mexico City to the U.S. border.

García said the modernized Highway 58 volition streamline freight proscription successful the authorities and expedite question to the bluish border, portion besides allowing residents of confederate Nuevo León to chopped question times to Monterrey, the authorities capital, from 5 hours to three.

The span and the caller road are expected to fortify the section system by encouraging commercialized and tourism, García said, making places specified arsenic Laguna de Labradores, Puente de Dios, Pozo del Gavilán and the Zaragoza waterfalls much accessible to visitors. 

“This road … volition bring important benefits to families and businesses by attracting visitors … to the confederate and citrus-producing regions of our state,” Miguel Flores, Secretary General of the Nuevo León government, said.

Governor García emphasized that the caller road volition marque places specified arsenic Laguna de Labradores, Puente de Dios, Pozo del Gavilán and the Zaragoza waterfalls much accessible to tourists. (Gobierno de Nuevo León)

When completed, the intermountain road volition besides link Nuevo León with the authorities of San Luis Potosí to the south, improving road infrastructure betwixt the 2 states and facilitating the proscription of goods and passengers betwixt the halfway and northbound of the country. 

San Luis Potosí Governor Ricardo Gallardo said the task volition let for a quicker transportation betwixt his authorities and Mexico’s bluish border, but volition besides payment Mexico arsenic a whole.

“The caller road connects Highway 57, the busiest successful the country, much straight with Monterrey, Nuevo Laredo and different cardinal regions, improving connectivity betwixt cardinal and bluish Mexico,” helium said.

The concern mag Líder Empresarial said the intermountain road task volition not lone trim question times successful the north, but it volition besides supply biology benefits from reduced postulation congestion and supply a boost to nearshoring.

“[The highway] volition payment Nuevo León’s manufacture by expanding commercialized and logistics competitiveness betwixt Mexico and the United States … and volition amended question safety, reducing the anticipation of conveyance accidents,” it said.

The full Interserrana Highway task is scheduled to beryllium completed by mid-2027.

With reports from Líder Empresarial and Mundo Ejecutivo