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Puertecitos - Laguna Chapala Road Construction Update
Translation from ensenada.net:
Article posted November 14, 2012
By Elizabeth Vargas
The modernization of the rural road-Laguna Chapala Puertecitos report a physical progress of 85 percent, for which, the Ministry of Communications and
Transport through the SCT in Baja California Center invests 130 million pesos.
With a goal in 2012 of 16 kilometers, this work consists of widening and paving to 9 meters from kilometer 130 to 146 and generates approximately 145
direct jobs.
In the current administration, modernized open 71.2 kilometers, with a total investment of 677 million pesos.
With a total length of 126 kilometers, at the conclusion of the modernization of the rural road Puertecitos-Laguna Chapala, the transfer time is 90
minutes, compared to 7 hours before Shuttle modernization.
The work is part of the road axis Mexicali-San Felipe-Laguna Chapala Puertecitos, detonator project tourism and economic development for the region,
to promote investment in a region known and visited for its natural scenery, beaches and sports activities, but their development had been hampered by
the lack of adequate road infrastructure to access the area.
In turn, this axis represents a third alternative road transfer and communication to the south of the state, through a fast and secure way.
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Third?
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David,
Probably: 1) Tijuana-Tecate to Ensenada to Hwy #1
2) Mexicali to Tecate/ Ensenada to Hwy #1
3) San Felipe south to Chapala to Hwy #1
I will draw a map later  
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Hi Ged... this is what it said: "In turn, this axis represents a third alternative road transfer and communication to the south of the state, through
a fast and secure way."
I guess it depends on what they consider the "south of the state"?
To me, El Rosario across to Puertecitos is about halfway down the state... below those towns would be in the 'south half'.
Even if that line between north and south was drawn further north, say Camalu to San Felipe... there still are only two roads from north to south. So
if Hwy. 5 is the 'third road' (according to the article), and Hwy. 1 is the first, what is the second?
Heck, even the El Camino Real is along the Hwy. 1 corridor between Camalu and El Rosario, so it can't be it! LOL
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Give up
David, David, David............you are trying to apply north-of-the-border logic to Baja........doesn't work.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaguy
David, David, David............you are trying to apply north-of-the-border logic to Baja........doesn't work. |
Yes, I know... silly me... 
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Bajaguy
Thanks for the information, this is good news for me as I plan my new home near Los Cerritos.
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126 kilometers in 90 minutes?????? Will it really be that fast?? That's a little under 90km/hr, isnt it?
So, 16 km completed in 2012. Was this a slow or a fast stretch for the roadworkers?
If 16km/year is a typical average, when might it be completed? Sometime in 2015?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Hook
126 kilometers in 90 minutes?????? Will it really be that fast?? That's a little under 90km/hr, isnt it?
So, 16 km completed in 2012. Was this a slow or a fast stretch for the roadworkers?
If 16km/year is a typical average, when might it be completed? Sometime in 2015? |
It hasn't been that good. More like 10 kilometers a year.
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I believe most of the delay was due to two natural disasters. One was the Easter earthquake a year ago and the other was storm damage to Hwy 1.
All the construction crews were pulled off the Puertecitos to Chapala job for the repairs necessary for these two events.
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Sadly, the high adventure of the dirt road from Puertecitos to Luguna Chapala is forever gone. Hopefully paving the road won't result in big trucks,
trash and development.
From Baja to the Sahara to the Arctic and all places in between.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaguy
Translation from ensenada.net:
"detonator" tourism and economic development |
Something lost in translation???
ie: detonate, explode, jumpstart, give a big boost......
or
is the new road passing through a military training range......
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| Quote: | Originally posted by generubin
Sadly, the high adventure of the dirt road from Puertecitos to Luguna Chapala is forever gone. Hopefully paving the road w:bounce n't result in big trucks, trash and development. |
I saw an 18 wheeler go by Cocos Friday.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by TW
| Quote: | Originally posted by generubin
Sadly, the high adventure of the dirt road from Puertecitos to Luguna Chapala is forever gone. Hopefully paving the road w:bouncen't result in big trucks, trash and development. |
I saw an 18 wheeler go by Cocos Friday. |
Ouch, we'll have to wait for the coming ice age to come and go before that side of Baja is ever the same.
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The avoiding of all the towns and shorter distance to Mexicali and the mainland will have semis using Hwy. 5.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
The avoiding of all the towns and shorter distance to Mexicali and the mainland will have semis using Hwy. 5. |
I suppose for the Mexican truck drivers the paving of this road is heaven. Just last March 2012 we were in Gonzaga and all was quite as there was
still washboard dirt north of Gonzaga and all the way to Mexico One. I remember 30 years ago when once you were off of Alphonsina's property the beach
was free and clear of palapas or any structures at all. I guess I just have to count myself lucky for having seen it, camped it and lived it.
I take that back about waiting for the ice age. Peak oil is upon us, we are looking at 10 years or 20 at the most and there'll be no more oil to drive
our cars and trucks. I hope I'm not too old to ride my mountain bike to Baja.
[Edited on 11-19-2012 by generubin]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
The avoiding of all the towns and shorter distance to Mexicali and the mainland will have semis using Hwy. 5. |
that's awesome! less traffic on the 1.
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Don't worry about oil, under North Dakota and other American states is more oil than under Saudi Arabia... of course the prosperity and economic
freedom it will unleash has a lot to do with who is in political control that bows to special interests or foreign oil producers.
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Quote from the first post: "The modernization of the rural road-Laguna Chapala Puertecitos report a physical progress of 85 percent,"
I don't understand the article stating 85% of the road is done. The last report I read is the road is still not done all the way to Gonzaga, let
alone from there to Hwy 1.
Again, I have not heard or read anything about any work even started on the Gonzaga-Chapala section so how could they claim 85% is done?.
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Perhaps the roadwork portion that has been funded is 85% done?
Anything to make politicians sound successful by a willing media, who don't personally check facts! 
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