OHL Concessions is Awarded their Sixth Motorway in Mexico

The regional council of Mexico City have awarded OHL Concessions a new motorway, becoming the sixth on the OHL Group’s in Mexico.

The new concession includes the financing, construction, operation and maintenance of an elevated peripheral road over the Manuel Avila Camacho Boulevard and will last 30 years. It will run from north to south between the border of Mexico State (Cuatro Caminos) and the San Antonio Distribuidor Vial.

The section is 9 km long and most of it consists of an elevated, double-bodied viaduct with three lanes each roadway. Among its main features is a tunnel of 1.5 km to be built between Palmas and Alencastre under the Fuente de Petroleos and the intersection with Reforma. The end goal of the tunnel is the environmental conservation of the Chapultepec Forest.

At its northernmost the new concession will connect to the Bicentennial Elevated Viaduct, a motorway run by OHL Concessions in Mexico State which already has its first section of 5.5 km in operation. At its southernmost it will connect to another section of viaduct already in existence.

The concession forms part of the Urban Motorway that is to connect the roads to Queretaro, Toluca and Cuernavaca. It’s a project from the regional council of Mexico City aimed at easing the traffic that crosses western Mexico City from north to south and is at present very congested.

OHL Concessions: 356 km of Motorways in Mexico

The OHL Group have operated in Mexico since 1980. With the new concession they will now have a total of six motorways totalling 356 km combined, most of which in urban or partly urban sections. The other five are as follows:

• External Mexican Beltway: A 155 km toll motorway – a ring road that goes around Mexico City from north to south through the east
• Elevated Bicentennial Viaduct: 32 km long and which is to run across the Northern Periferico in Mexico City’s metropolitan area, 5.5 km of which is already operating
• Los Poetas-Luis Cabrera Motorway: 5.5 km long, it makes up Mexico City’s south western network of bridges, tunnels and distributors
• Amozoc-Perote Highway: 123 km long, it runs between the capital of Puebla State and the city of Perote in Veracruz and has become an alternative route to link Mexico City with the Port of Veracruz
• Puebla Northern Relief Road: 31.5 km, planned to become the northern arch of Puebla City’s ring road

OHL Concessions is also taking part in the extension and operation of Toluca International Airport, also a concession.