Transportation Ministry will reinforce Cancún’s nearly-complete Nichupté Bridge after photos show cracks

Mexico’s Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation Ministry (SICT) has committed to reinforcing Cancún’s Nichupté Bridge aft videos and photos circulating connected societal media revealed disposable cracks successful the factual joints of the yet-to-be-inaugurated infrastructure project.

Following the circulation of images showing fissures successful the unions betwixt factual blocks that marque up the bridge, SICT announced it volition fortify the operation and behaviour dynamic and static absorption tests earlier the span enters operation, according to El Economista.

The span cuts crossed the Nichupté lagoon, granting quicker entree to Cancún’s edifice zone. (Gobierno de México)

Guido Mendiburu Solís, SICT delegate successful Quintana Roo, said the span operation poses nary hazard to users. Nonetheless, helium said 4 further enactment pillars and a metallic beam volition beryllium constructed astatine at slightest 3 enactment points passim the factual operation arsenic reinforcement measures.

Some parts of the operation person settled, Mendiburu said, due to the fact that the span was built successful an country with precocious karsticity, a geological diagnostic of limestone areas prone to sinkholes.

“It is not structural damage, but earlier it is inaugurated we volition behaviour load tests, some with moving and static vehicles, to verify that the enactment fulfills the nonsubjective for which it was designed,” the authoritative explained.

The images shared by societal media users this period amusement pronounced cracks and irregularities successful factual joints, peculiarly successful sections of the postulation distributor connecting Bonampak Avenue and Luis Donaldo Colosio Boulevard, according to section quality outlet Expediente Quintana Roo. The photos besides uncover fissures connected little and lateral surfaces of the structure, arsenic good arsenic areas with cracked factual and chipped edges, generating interest among drivers and section residents astir the structural information of the megaproject.

El Puente Nichupté, en Cancún, Quintana Roo, será uno de los puentes más largos de América Latina sobre una laguna. Su construcción beneficiará a más de 1.3 millones de habitantes y a 20 millones de turistas que visitan la zona anualmente. 🏖️ pic.twitter.com/nHGqFwbkSl

— SICT México (@SICTmx) January 8, 2026

The 11.2-kilometer Nichupté Bridge, which officials had antecedently announced would unfastened this month, has been plagued by delays since operation began successful 2022. Originally projected successful 2006 arsenic portion of Cancún’s 2030 Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development, the task languished for 16 years earlier enactment yet commenced.

With the span scheduled to beryllium inaugurated by the extremity of this month, builders are coming down to the wire, with Mendiburu reporting that operation is 93% complete.

The span volition diagnostic 3 lanes successful each absorption connected its main conception with 1 reversible lane, a motorcycle way and pedestrian walkway. It is designed to trim transit times betwixt the metropolis halfway and edifice portion by up to 45 minutes by crossing a information of the Nichupté lagoon and avoiding the astir congested postulation areas. Officials accidental it volition payment an mean of 1.3 cardinal residents and much than 20 cardinal tourists annually, and person promised that determination volition beryllium nary tolls.

With reports from El Economista and Expediente Quintana Roo

This communicative was written by a Mexico News Daily unit exertion with the assistance of Claude, past revised and fact-checked earlier publication.