Overpriced toll road
Lowering the excessive costs of using the Guadalajara macrolibramiento (outer city ring road) will be high among the topics due to be discussed by the National Auto Transportation and Cargo Chamber with president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s transition team in coming days.
Just over half the vehicles using the newly opened four-lane toll road are tractor-trailers, for which the cost of using the 111-kilometer, four-lane toll road comes to more than 600 pesos.
Airport mosquito plague decreases
The plague of mosquitos infesting the terminal of the Guadalajara international has decreased by around 15 percent, according to Jalisco Tourism Secretary Enrique Ramos. That is not enough, however, for Daniel Curiel Rodriguez, leader of the Confederation of Jalisco’s Industrial Chambers. While acknowledging that around 100 “bodies of water” situated around the airport exacerbate the problem, Curiel insists that airport operators, GAP, and state authorities are dragging their feet over finding a solution to the problem. Fumigation, rather than more studies, are what’s needed, he said this week. Although Health Secretary Alfonso Petersen had stressed that the presence of the insects presents no health risk to the public since they are not the species that spread the dengue or Zika virus, Curiel says the plague is a huge annoyance to travelers and” seriously damages the image of the city.”