YouTube channel B1M takes a trip to the Yucatan Peninsula to examine the risks and the opportunities of Tren Maya—a $10 billion railway under construction to connect the south and southeast corners of the country to tourist destinations.
Mexico is constructing a $10 billion railway across the Yucatan Peninsula and through the five southern states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo called Tren Maya.
The 948-mile-long rail line is divided into seven sections built in two phases, eventually stopping at a total of 29 stations to connect major tourism sites, beaches, and hotels. The project is extremely controversial, however, for its impacts on the jungles, natural areas, and historic-cultural sites of the country.
All of the controversy and scale of the project is detailed in the movie above. Below are a sample of articles on similar Tren Maya-related subjects.
- Tren Maya Railway Project (Railway Technology, June 2021)
- A controversial train heads for the Maya rainforest (Science, January 2022)
- Mexico's Maya train: Work halted over cave concerns (BBC, April 2022)
- Mexican environmentalists, Indigenous leaders denounce Mayan Train project (NBC News, May 2022)
- Jungle Train (Bloomberg, June 2022)
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