After 15 months in the making, Chapala’s Municipal Transit Department (Movilidad Municipal) is finally ready for prime time.

Local motorists should plan to avoid the Libramiento bypass early Sunday, March 10 when the road will be closed between 7:30 and 10:30 a.m. for a five-kilometer foot race.

Chapala area first responders were kept busy during the final days of Carnaval festivities, attending to a slew of highway accidents and other mishaps.

Two men will serve lengthy prison sentences following their recent conviction for the 2017 kidnapping of an Ajijic businessman.

Chapala police and state authorities were called to the scene of two new shooting incidents, with one fatality reported this week.

Movilidad Chapala, the municipality’s independent traffic department, is gearing up for full implementation of its regulations, set to take effect March 11.