Puerto Vallarta will get a new ‘first world’ electric transport system, with air conditoning and WiFi

A modern electrified transport strategy is coming to the Mexican Pacific Coast metropolis and tourer destination of Puerto Vallarta, featuring 18 articulated buses 18 meters agelong with country for 120 passengers, arsenic good arsenic 20 smaller ones.

Dubbed the  Francisco Medina Ascencio Electric Public Transport System for Puerto Vallarta, the caller “electromobility” task volition modernize proscription successful the metropolis arsenic it reduces pollution, according to Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus Navarro.

The precocious completed Las Juntas interchange represents different measurement guardant successful Puerto Vallarta’s improving proscription system, offering a time-saving alternate successful 1 of the city’s busiest areas. (Pablo Lemus Navarro/Facebook)

A large diagnostic of the caller strategy volition beryllium a caller all-electric way that will tally on the engaged coastal thoroughfare Francisco Medina Ascensio Avenue that connects the metropolis halfway with Ixtapa, an municipality country wrong the Puerto Vallarta municipality.

In June, Lemus Navarro said the caller transport route, which is expected to outgo $897 cardinal pesos (US$43.39 million), volition beryllium equipped with aerial conditioning and escaped Wi-Fi to supply a “first-world” service. It is expected to service astir 20,000 passengers a day.

The electrical mobility task is portion of an ongoing run to amended proscription successful Puerto Vallarta.

The state, national and municipal governments person invested implicit 2.2 cardinal pesos ($119.7 million) successful infrastructure and the modernization of the city’s nationalist transportation, Lemus Navarro said. 

In summation to the caller electrical route, the Las Juntas Interchange precocious opened, which is expected to heighten mobility successful 1 of the city’s astir congested areas. 

“After 7 months, we are grateful for the patience of the radical of Vallarta during the operation of the archetypal signifier of the Las Juntas interchange,” Lemus Navarro wrote connected the X societal media site. “This roadway is present operational, streamlining postulation successful Puerto Vallarta.”  

With reports from Quadratín Jalisco, Publimetro and Mexico Business News