Thread: Mexico hopes new highway into drug country sparks developmen

Originally Posted by NoBueno

Originally Posted by Captainron

What amazes me about this project is the incredibly low cost, compared to US projects. That's why I keep saying that Third World development can be done much cheaper than trying to accomodate an expanding population in the US.

Here is an example:

Locally our planners are wrangling about a 1.5 mile bridge and 3 mile light rail project. The cost: $4 billion.

Yet for $900 million (at last report) Mexico is building this 50 mile long project, with 63 tunnels and 32 bridges.

That's because mexico doesn't have to contend with union labor.

And the new bridges will give day labor guys a lot more places to stand around waiting under...

Being the pessimist I am, maybe the new highway will simply facilitate faster and more efficient distribution of drugs.

It is unlikely to have a major impact either way the production area would just move further into the mountains.

Come to think of it the retail trade would expand to sell marijuana to the expanding number of tourists.

Here's a map of the states of Mexico. The state of Durango is number 5 on the map and the state it's being connected to is the coastal state of Sinoloa on the west coast of Mexico, shown as number 4 on the map. I'm sure there's already plenty of good roads headed North out of Durango and Sinoloa to the United States.

That is right for Sinaloa Coastal but not right for Ciudad Durango to Parral, Chihuahua yet. The existing road between Ciudad Durango to Parral is better than the Ciudad Durango to Mazatlan.

BTW My grandfather a mining engineer spent 1918 in Parral.