“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” seems to be the applicable slogan for the Chapala government project to rehabilitate two blocks of Ajijic’s Calle Colón-Morelos.
A major stumbling block, or better said a heap of stumbling blocks, was reported early this week as work crews were spotted tearing up a segment of completed reconstruction at the intersection with 16 de Septiembre-Independencia.
According to the Chapala press office, the work has been started over to meet the leveling specifications in the project blueprint for connection to the last block of Morelos that was rebuilt last year.
An additional complication arose when Calle Ocampo between Juárez and Colón was simultaneously closed off to through traffic to allow for reconstructing the Ocampo-Colón intersection for an estimated period of one week. Buses, delivery trucks and cars have been forced to find alternative detour routes with practically no advance warning. Ocampo-Constitución is the only street running west to east across the entire village.
The good news in this snafu saga is that pedestrian-friendly sidewalks have been finished along the full stretch between the plaza and the waterfront.