Construction of the tunnel in the Matadero Canyon is 96% complete: Esteva Medina

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

• The head of the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation ( SICT ), Jesús Antonio Esteva Medina, made a work tour to supervise said work that is located at kilometer 10+100, of the Cañón del Matadero section of the Tijuana-Ensenada highway.
• It is a 117-meter tunnel for water passage, which had an investment of more than 100 million pesos that will benefit 1.9 million inhabitants of the region.

 

The Secretary of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation, Jesús Antonio Esteva Medina, accompanied by the general director of the SICT BC Center, Rigoberto Villegas Montoya, supervised the works of the water tunnel that is being built in the Cañón del Matadero, on the Tijuana-Ensenada highway.

During a work tour, the official highlighted that the work is 96 percent complete; it involves the construction of a 117-meter tunnel for water passage, to address the emergency caused by the landslide of the embankment located at kilometer 10+100.

The construction of the tunnel has an investment of more than 100 million pesos and a progress of 105 meters in the vault, 117 meters in the walls and 117 meters in the slab. This work will be completed next November of this year and will benefit 1.9 million inhabitants of the state of Baja California.

In front of the general director of the SICT BC Center, Rigoberto Villegas Montoya, Secretary Esteva Medina affirmed that the Government of Mexico works to meet the needs of the inhabitants in each state of the country.  

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