Nichupté bridge to connect Cancún with hotel zone by year’s end

By precocious 2025, Cancún, Quintana Roo, is acceptable to person a caller span implicit the Nichupté Lagoon that volition link the edifice metropolis to the edifice zone.  

The Nichupté Vehicular Bridge, an infrastructure task being developed by the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT), is expected to payment 1.3 cardinal residents successful Cancún by reducing question times — up to 45 minutes for regular commuters — erstwhile completed. 

La magna obra del #PuenteNichupté 🌉 avanza su construcción con tecnología “top down”. Un paso histórico en la modernización de nuestra infraestructura. ¡La transformación con justicia societal y el desarrollo sustentable avanza en #QuintanaRoo! #UnidosParaTransformar pic.twitter.com/xBm4S90LBu

— Mara Lezama (@MaraLezama) April 27, 2025

During a tract circuit connected Saturday with President Claudia Sheinbaum and Quintana Roo Governor Mara Lezama, caput of SICT Jesús Antonio Esteva Medina said the span volition beryllium 1 of the longest bridges implicit a lagoon successful Latin America. 

With a full magnitude of 11.2 kilometers, the span volition link Cancún’s edifice portion with Colosio Boulevard, Tulum, Kabah and Bonampak Avenues. It volition diagnostic an 8.8-kilometer-long bridge, a 103-meter-long metallic arch, and 2 entree interchanges, each measuring 2.4 kilometers located connected Luis Donaldo Colosio Boulevard and Kukulcán Boulevard. The task volition besides see a bicycle lane, pedestrian walkways, autobus stops and a lighting system.

The span volition person a 14.9-meter-wide crown transverse conception with 3 postulation lanes: 1 successful each absorption and 1 reversible lane, which volition beryllium adjusted according to postulation demand. It volition beryllium equipped with a state-of-the-art Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), linked to a Command, Control, Communications, and Computing Center (C4), to supply greater information for residents and visitors during utmost weather.

Furthermore, SICT said it volition service arsenic an alternate evacuation way for the tourer country successful lawsuit of a earthy disaster, contingency oregon emergency.

According to SICT, the bridge, which volition transverse the mangrove country astatine the Nichupté Lagoon, is simply a sustainable task that represents the Ministry’s largest biology restoration program, with 306 hectares of mangrove reforestation. 

The portion is simply a Protected Natural Area and (ANP) natural country of the broader Nichupté Lagoon System, which plays a important relation successful sustaining the ecological dynamics of the lagoon and the reefs that marque up the Costa Occidental de Isla Mujeres National Park, Punta Cancún and Punta Nizuc, each portion of the Mesoamerican Reef System (MAR).

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