New Cenote damages PDC-Cancun hiway: Bag drag will take longer

[DandyDon]

This happened on the peninsula and will affect mainland visitors and locals as well, but they probably know - and Coz bag draggers may not. Various reports say the hole is one to two and half meters deep, closing lanes both ways - altho some light vehicles are being allowed by the hole. Much of the traffic is being routed to the Nuevo Xcán-Cancun toll road with tolls waived, and perhaps a special entrance created...?

Riviera Maya News » Collapse of Federal Highway causing major problems

Cancún-Playa chaos as highway collapses
Enormous Sinkhole Opens up in the Middle of Playa del Carmen-Cancun Highway - The Yucatan Times



Surely they don't make vehicles go all the way to Nuevo Xcán and turn around...??

 

[gopbroek]

Can anyone recommend a cheap hotel near the Playa pier in case I miss the 11PM ferry tomorrow night?

 

[cvchief]

Lomas Ground, part of the Mayair people has started a ferry!

To all the people who have hired the ground transportation service withLOMAS TRAVEL:
In order to face the contingency that was presented at the road Cancun-Playa Del Carmen, all our ground transportation services in the area affected will continue to the next
Itinerary:
To all our clients from the international airport of ‪#‎cancún‬, with destiny to ‪#‎rivieramaya‬ and Tulum:
- ground transportation from the airport to El Dorado Royale to spa resort, where you will leave
Maritime transportation to maroma adventures, where will depart ground transportation to your hotel.
To all our clients coming out of Tulum Riviera Maya and towards the international airport of Cancun:
- ground transportation from your hotel to maroma adventures, from where they are
Will provide transportation to maritime El Dorado Royale, where will depart towards the ground transportation of Cancun international airport
We appreciate your patience, we do our best to serve you.
You have a great value for us, because in lomas travel... We don't care and are note!




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---------- Post added August 28th, 2015 at 09:28 AM ----------

Glad I broke down and bought Mayair tickets on the way down Tuesday. I always ferry on the way down, but times lined up and it is just the two of us, so I went with Mayair. For once a snap decision might be paying off!

 

[Dave Dillehay]

Glad I saw this, here in Cozumel I did not know and have a flight from Cancun Sunday. Thanks, I was able to get a Mayair flight Sunday morning!

Dave Dillehay
Aldora Divers

 

[mediumone]

They've already built a bypass around the sinkhole. Trucks and busses can now use 307 again, and don't need to use the detour. Obviously, the typical 50 minute trip will take a bit longer -----

---------- Post added August 28th, 2015 at 03:17 PM ----------

They had over 200 people working on the road all night. Some ground transfer companies aren't even adjusting their return times.

 

[Brules]

If that was the US - it would be closed for 6 months to a year and a bypass would have to be engineered and take 3 months. Go Mexico!

 

[mstevens]

Surely they don't make vehicles go all the way to Nuevo Xcán and turn around...??

That's what people on Playa boards were reporting they were doing yesterday. They seem to be making rapid headway on getting this fixed, and that detour is likely already no longer needed.

 

[DandyDon]

If that was the US - it would be closed for 6 months to a year and a bypass would have to be engineered and take 3 months. Go Mexico!

The economic controls of their system with their standards gets things done fast. Sometimes the new hotels blow up, but hey - bulldoze some more runs & mangroves build anew.

That's what people on Playa boards were reporting they were doing yesterday. They seem to be making rapid headway on getting this fixed, and that detour is likely already no longer needed.

I drove to Chiquila' to catch the Holbox ferry several years ago and maps were scarce, google maps not applicable then, and we ended up driving from PDC to Cancun airport, then that toll road - only to learn we couldn't get off until we got to Valladolid, where we turned around to take the free road thru villages and over speed bumps to Nuevo Xcán, then north to the port. We would have loved to get off at Nuevo Xcán! Now they have the new toll road from PDC to Nuevo Xcán at least.

 

[DjDiverDan]

If that was the US - it would be closed for 6 months to a year and a bypass would have to be engineered and take 3 months. Go Mexico!

If that was the United States, the EPA would require an Environmental Impact Statement before any construction, taking 6 months to complete and another 2 years to review, the Endangered Species Act would require a two-year study to demonstrate that the new Sinkhole wasn't essential habitat for some endangered Cenote Skink, the Army Corps of Engineers would assert jurisdiction over the sinkhole, while the EPA would insist upon the regulatory process for permits covering any alteration of navigable waterways (the underground river flowing under the road), the Department of Labor would insist that Davis-Bacon applies to any contracts to rebuild the road, making certain that it costs 3 times as much as it should and takes at least twice as long, and FEMA would set up a trailer city immediately adjacent to the sinkhole, with no electric power or clean water facilities, to house the "victims" of the disaster, and finally, after 6 years, and Billions of dollars, and multiple innings of blaming everyone else, there would be a temporary patch of a 60-foot gap in a two-lane highway. Democracy in a state where the operating assumption is that the Government is the solution to every problem.

 

[mmmbelows]

Ha ha, lets not forget if the sink hole was in the US and somebody drove into it an sprained their pinky, 7 lawyers would have appeared out of thin air and there would be a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the sinkhole, the highway department, the concrete manufacturer and 7-11 because the drivers coffee burned them when they spilled it when they fell in the sink hole because they were texting and watching a movie on their Ipod while driving.

In Mexico 9 guys would jump off a work truck going north and pull the car out of the sink hole, pat the driver on the back and send them on his way.