The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Judging from the eager crowds of users in its first few days, Metro Can, the largest dog park in Mexico, should prove to be as popular as the rest of Zapopan’s Parque Metropolitano itself.
It’s been a long time coming but new ‘ecological’ buses are gradually being introduced onto Guadalajara’s streets. State authorities hope it won’t be long before they become the norm rather than the exception. The buses, which are running on various routes, including 51A and 51B, 371, 633 and 368, each cost 1.2 million pesos (91,000 dollars). Currently, 290 of the green-painted buses are in operation, 50 of them powered by natural gas. Owners and drivers, however, are pushing for fare increases on routes using the new buses.
Zapopan has become one of Mexico’s most keenly scrutinized municipalities after 200 new surveillance cameras went into operation last week.
More than 40 employees will spend their days and nights checking screens for wrongdoers at the city’s new Centro de Monitoreo y Videovigilancia (Monitoring and Vigilance Center), that was also inaugurated last week.
Construction is inching ahead on the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art La Barranca in the Parque Mirador to the north of Guadalajara.
One of the robust bikes that will be used in Guadalajara’s forthcoming public bicycle sharing program was put on show for the benefit of journalists and photographers this week.
Costing 1,200 Canadian dollars (15,000 pesos) each, the bikes are set to become a common feature around the city next year, when the program is up and running.
The first public hospital for pets in Jalisco finally opened this week four years after work on the building had finished. Problems with drainage connections were cited as the principal reason for the delay in getting the Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG)-operated facility up and running.
A non-binding public poll to determine the level of support for the decriminalization of marijuana will go ahead in Jalisco September 17-19, even though the State Congress is dithering over releasing funds to make it happen.
The National Tequila Industry Chamber (CNIT) is hosting its first Festival de Tequila next weekend (September 12-14) to mark 40 years since Mexico’s illustrious firewater received its denomination of origin designation.
Zapopan authorities have opened the first dedicated cycle path (ciclopista) in the Guadalajara metropolitan area that runs down the center of an avenue rather than along either side.
