Tren Maya

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Tren Maya ( Spanish for: Maya train ) is a mega project under development in Mexico .

Among other things, a railway line with a length of 1525 kilometers will run along the sites of the eponymous Maya . The project, announced in September 2018 by Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador , is intended to transport around three million people to 15 locations per year from 2023 in addition to freight transport and, according to the Mexican government, to promote ecotourism in particular .

The route , designed for a maximum speed of 160 km / h, is to begin in Palenque in Chiapas , then run via Tenosique in Tabasco to the state of Campeche to Escárcega . From there, the project takes two routes to the tourist resort of Cancun in Quintana Roo . The western route leads through the city of Campeche and the Yucatán stations of Maxcanú , Mérida , Izamal , Chichén Itzá and Valladolid .

The eastern branch should lead along the Mayan squares Calakmul , Xpuhil ( Becán , Chicanná ) and connect the cities of Bacalar , C. Puerto , Tulum , Playa del Carmen and Puerto Morelos .

Since the eastern route in numerous cenotes and by the Calakmul - Biosphere leads, an environmental report should originally created before construction starts and a consultation of indigenous communities in accordance with the requirements of the International Labor Organization are carried out. Only hotels with up to 50 rooms are to be built around the Calakmul site. A referendum , in which one percent of the Mexican population took part in November 2018, voted 89 percent in favor of the project, with which 20,000 jobs are to be created. Construction began in December 2018. The mega-project, which has a budget of 7.4 billion US dollars , is to be financed largely with income from tourism.

Resistance has been announced by the Zapatista Liberation Army out of fear of expulsion legitimized by right-of-way .

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  1. ↑ Mayan train on Yucatán: 1,525 kilometers, 15 stops - and a lot of trouble . In: Spiegel Online . April 8, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed April 9, 2019]).
  2. ^ Adriana Varillas: Everything you need to know about the Mayan Train project . In: El Universal , November 23, 2018. Retrieved February 23, 2019. 
  3. ↑ Dawn Marie Paley: When is the train coming to Yucatán? Retrieved July 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Martha Pskowski: Mexico's 'Mayan Train' Is Bound for Controversy . In: CityLab , February 22, 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2019. 
  5. ↑ Yngrid Fuentes: Tren Maya: así es el ambicioso proyecto que propone AMLO y tiene un costo de miles de millones de dólares para México (Spanish) , BBC Mundo . November 15, 2018. Accessed February 23, 2019.