Jala-Puerto Vallarta Highway has a saving of 2 and a half hours from Guadalajara to Banderas Bay, in Nayarit: Esteva Medina

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• At the event, which was chaired by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the head of SICT said that 2,024 million pesos were invested.
• This 173 km road has 21 structures: 8 bridges; 13 vehicular crossings; an interchange and a toll booth, as well as a 5 kilometer branch to the Puerto Vallarta International Airport.
• During the delivery of the third and final section, 33.2 km long, he highlighted that the work was completed in 2 years and 2 thousand employees participated.
• He announced that work is continuing on the Tepic-Compostela highway section, which will be completed in May 2025.

The inauguration of the Jala-Puerto Vallarta highway, which consists of 173 kilometers (km) with an investment of 2,024 million pesos, will allow a time saving in transfers of 2 and a half hours, said the Secretary of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT), Jesús Antonio Esteva Medina .

At the event headed by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the head of SICT highlighted that, with the inauguration of the third and final section, Bucerías-Puerto Vallarta, 33.2 kilometers, the highway will provide advantages for users.

“From Guadalajara to Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit, it used to take 5 and a half hours, now it takes 2 hours and 40 minutes.”

Accompanied by the governor of Nayarit, Miguel Ángel Navarro Quintero, and the governor of Jalisco, Pablo Lemus Navarro, Esteva Medina highlighted that the work was carried out in 2 years and involved 2 thousand people.

The secretary recalled that two sections had already been inaugurated, from Compostela to Las Varas and from Las Varas to Bucerías .

The Jala-Puerto Vallarta highway has 21 structures: 8 bridges between 6 and 15 meters high and up to 300 meters long; 13 vehicular crossings between 5 and 6 meters high and up to 40 meters long.

As well as a junction and a toll booth, and a 5-kilometer branch line to Puerto Vallarta International Airport.

To give an idea of the magnitude of the work, he explained, there are about 3 million cubic meters of cut, which are the excavations; 2.6 million cubic meters of embankment that are part of the fillings; 353 beams that were assembled to build the bridges; 2,600 tons of steel; 40 thousand cubic meters of hydraulic concrete that were used and 192 thousand cubic meters of asphalt mix.

The head of SICT announced that work continues on the Tepic-Compostela highway sections, a project that will be completed in May 2025, which will consolidate the work started by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and that we are closing in this second stage of the second floor of the Fourth Transformation.

Esteva Medina thanked the workers of the construction industry, the company and all the technical bodies involved in these works.

The event was attended by the Secretary of Welfare, Ariadna Montiel Reyes; the Secretary of Public Education, Mario Delgado Carrillo; the Secretary of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development, Edna Vega Rangel; the Undersecretary of Infrastructure of the SICT, Juan Carlos Fuentes Orrala; the General Director of the National Water Commission, Efraín Morales López, and the General Coordinator of Programs for Welfare, Carlos Torres Rosas.