Comments on: This Is When Mexico’s Maya Train Will Launch And How Much Tickets Could Cost

By: Yves Delage

Yves Delage — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 20:36:36 +0000

In reply to Jennifer. @Nicolas, You are totally wrong. According to Wikipedia, Merida is 12th. If you go to each cities, Monterey metropolitan area has a population of 5,341,171, Guadalajara is at 5,268,642 and Merida is at 1,316,090 way down the list.

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 14:07:21 +0000

In reply to Jennifer. @Jennifer, You are 100% correct, this is a Mexican government sponsored PUFF piece full of inacuracies. 80 MXN is ridiculous for a $20 billion project. In addition the train doesn't go to Merida (Mexico second largest city) but to a small town about 67km away in the small (really small) town of Teya...population of 2,000 (not a typo), about an hour drive. Finally, the builders have run out of track bed agregate.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 16:16:04 +0000

I believe the information you are posting about the Maya Train construction is entirely false and misleading. Having recently seen evidence of the construction from Cancun to Merida, it would appear to require an act of God for this to be completed by the end of September. Further, to say that In the early stages, “the environmental concerns been addressed” and “criticism has been taken into account”, is from everything I have read on this subject, is utter nonsense. The government has simply overruled serious negative environmental assessments and is forcing this project to go ahead. There are even grave concerns about the fragmented limestone structure of the ground being able to support a train. Having just spent 5 weeks in the Yucatan, the environmental impacts of unregulated tourism – Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Cozumel are already shockingly evident – and it it hard to image there will be much “pristine” or protected left as a result of this project. Sadly your site appears to be simply promoting tourism at all costs (in other posts as well) with no consideration as to the impact on the environment. Having read this post, I will delete my subscription. Not worth my time and certainly not what our poor degraded planet needs.