The federal government will invest 53.312 billion pesos (mdp) this year to strengthen and expand Mexico’s highway infrastructure, according to Jesús Esteva , head of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT) .
At Wednesday’s morning press conference, the federal official presented the 2025-2030 National Highway Infrastructure Program , which will total an investment of 372,804 million pesos for more than four thousand kilometers (km) in length.
The plan includes new projects and works to be completed in the coming years, as well as continuity works, priority axes, bridges and interchanges, small roads, highway modernization, and the Lázaro Cárdenas and Guerrero programs.
Among the continuity projects, Esteva highlighted the Rizo de Oro Bridge in Chiapas, which is expected to be completed in October 2025; the Nichupté Bridge in Quintana Roo; and the San Ignacio-Tayoltita Bridge, between Sinaloa and Durango, which is scheduled for completion in July of this year.
The priority axes include the Macuspana-Escárcega Highway, between Tabasco and Campeche; the Salina Cruz-Zihuatanejo Highway (Oaxaca-Guerrero); the Tierra y Libertad Circuit (Morelos); and the Toluca-Zihuatanejo Highway (State of Mexico-Guerrero); and others covering various areas of the country.
Esteva reported that as part of the Lázaro Cárdenas del Río General Program, roads connecting Nochixtlán-Huajuapan and Chazumba-Huajuapan, among others, will be strengthened; while the Guerrero Highway Program will rehabilitate the bridges in Omitlán, La Olla, Acahuitzola, and Alfredo Mendizábal.
Regarding small-scale roads , the federal official indicated that 135 new sections will be added this year, with an investment of three billion pesos. He also specified that 13.726 billion pesos will be allocated to highway modernization by 2025, and a total of 26 billion pesos over the six-year period , which will cover sections such as Zitácuaro-Maravatío (Michoacán), Armería-Manzanillo, and others.
During the press conference, among other details, he shared that the Bachetón program will have a budget of more than 200 billion pesos throughout the six-year term.
He also mentioned a joint investment with the National Bank of Public Works and Services (Banobras) , which will amount to 2.874 billion pesos by 2025, and which will include sections such as Tepic-Compostela (Nayarit), Nueva Italia-Lázaro Cárdenas (Michoacán), and the Tijuana-Nuevo Laredo Bypass (Baja California), among others.
With the announced projects and the improvement of Mexico’s highways, the country’s logistics network will also be strengthened, as regards the distribution and transportation of goods.
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