The first phase of the total overhaul of Chapala’s Avenida Madero is due for completion by mid-December, according to a progress report that Mayor Alejandro Aguirre shared with local news media this week.
The main street makeover contracted by the state government’s Department of Infrastructure and Public Works (SIOP) kicked off on August 4 under a projected timeline of two years, with the western lanes running Calles López Cotilla and Niños Héroes to be finished in approximately two to three months. But a setback in the project cropped up barely two weeks later when workmen digging up the stretch of street in front of City Hall discovered assorted archaeological artifacts hidden below the surface. Shards of ancient clay vessels and other relics were collected by personnel from the National Institute of Anthropology and History before work in that span was resumed.
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