Traffic in Coatepec and between Coatepec has been building quite noticeably since we have lived here, not to mention before that. There is talk of another libramiento, from just before Coatepec to Xalapa to relieve some of the congestion.
NO, NO, NO, NO.
Why follow the US down the road (or highway) to even more dependence on cars and buses and to more consumption of gasoline and to more pollution and to the demand for yet again more highways and the continuing concretization of farmland and forests?
Now is the time for Mexico to go the way of really smart countries and go for RAIL: light rail and longer-range high-speed passenger rail. AND to restore rail as the route for cargo over long distances.
In our particular neck of the woods, rail would require far, far less land and therefore far, far less consumption of rich agricultural terrain and far less destruction of housing. Light rail can go right through an area with only minor disruption.
THIS would be worth pursuing!
