Bachetón program begins in 9 states; it will serve 45 thousand km of federal highways in the country: Esteva Medina

This is an automated translation of the press release issued in Spanish

• · This program started this week in Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Durango, Guerrero, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca and Sonora
• · The Government of Mexico is carrying out its actions by SICT and SEDENA; the latter will be in charge of nearly a thousand km of roads in the southeast of the country, he said.
• · The first phase of routine conservation in the 32 federal entities will have 134 work fronts and will be from November to next February.

The Secretary of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation ( SICT ), Jesús Antonio Esteva Medina , announced that the Bachetón Federal Highway Conservation Program has begun in 9 states of the country: Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Durango, Guerrero, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca and Sonora.

At a morning press conference before President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the head of SICT said that patching and mapping had begun on the entire Federal Toll-Free Highway Network, which has an approximate length of 44,600 kilometers and in which the strategy is to cover 134 sections of 300 kilometers and 250 work fronts.

He stressed that this action in a first phase of routine conservation (patching and mapping) began this week and will conclude in February 2025, in which 1,160 workers are participating.

Esteva Medina indicated that in addition to patching and mapping, periodic maintenance will be carried out on the entire Federal Toll-Free Highway Network, which consists of milling, that is, removing the pavement and placing 5-centimeter pavement.

This project covers a total of 631 kilometers and will employ around 1,500 workers. It will begin in December and will be completed in April 2025, he stressed .

Secretary Esteva Medina reported that the Ministry of National Defense ( SEDENA ) is servicing nearly a thousand kilometers in the southeast of the country, which has to do with all the highways and roads that were affected by the processes of transferring materials, mainly for the construction of the Mayan Train.

He mentioned that there are 17 federal highways with a length of about 900 kilometers and 181 rural roads with a length of 430 km, mainly in Yucatan, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Campeche and Veracruz. In these tasks, SEDENA has about 10 percent progress, he added.

Esteva Medina said that patching and mapping consists of cutting out the damaged area and removing the affected material; if it is a deep pothole, compaction in what is also called bonding irrigation, in the 9 states where this program has already begun.

There are 25 work fronts, 120 active sections of 300 kilometers each; next week we will begin with those 120 fronts and by December we will have the 134 active fronts complete, with a service capacity of around 370 kilometers per day," he stressed.

The other road maintenance process has to do with milling and laying pavement, which is what we call repaving. It covers 640 kilometers and this action begins in the first days of December, he explained.

On the other hand, the head of SICT highlighted the commemoration of the “National Railroad Day” that is celebrated today, in which the memory of Jesús García Corona is honored, the first Mexican train driver who gave his life to save the town of Nacozari.

He explained that this is why the town of Nacozari de García is called that, because of this man who diverted a train that had caught fire and in which there was dynamite, so he gave his life and in 1935 President Lázaro Cárdenas decreed the “National Railway Worker Day” and this man as “Hero of Nacozari”.

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