Playa Zipolite. Welcome To The Beach Of The Dead!: Airport running late, over budget: deputy Mexico City’s new airport is adhering to the standards of most big infrastructure projects: it is behind schedule and over budget. FULL STORY

A little about Playa Zipolite, The Beach of the Dead . . .

Playa Zipolite, Oaxaca, Southern Mexico, on the Pacific Ocean. A little bit about my favorite little get-away on this small world of ours.

Zipolite, a sweaty 30-minute walk west from Puerto Angel, brings you to Playa Zipolite and another world. The feeling here is 1970's - Led Zep, Marley, and scruffy gringos.

A long, long time ago, Zipolite beach was usually visited by the Zapotecans...who made it a magical place. They came to visit Zipolite to meditate, or just to rest.

Recently, this beach has begun to receive day-trippers from Puerto Angel and Puerto Escondido, giving it a more TOURISTY feel than before.

Most people come here for the novelty of the nude beach, yoga, turtles, seafood, surf, meditation, vegetarians, discos, party, to get burnt by the sun, or to see how long they can stretch their skinny budget.

I post WWW Oaxaca, Mexico, Zipolite and areas nearby information. Also general budget, backpacker, surfer, off the beaten path, Mexico and beyond, information.

REMEMBER: Everyone is welcome at Zipolite.

ivan

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Airport running late, over budget: deputy Mexico City’s new airport is adhering to the standards of most big infrastructure projects: it is behind schedule and over budget. FULL STORY

Airport running late, over budget: deputy

Mexico City’s new airport is adhering to the standards of most big infrastructure projects: it is behind schedule and over budget. FULL STORY

Mexico News Daily | Thursday, August 17, 2017

Mexico City’s new airport is adhering to the standards of most big infrastructure projects: it is behind schedule and over budget.

A federal deputy who presides over the legislative commission that is monitoring the project says the airport might not open until three years after the target date of October 2020.

Rafael Hernández Soriano said the information came from Adriana de Almeida Lobo, director of World Resources Institute Mexico and an advisor to the firm in charge of construction, Mexico City Airport Group (GACM).

“It’s first-hand information she has because she works with GACM,” said Hernández.

A timetable delivered by the firm to the Chamber of Deputies indicated that the outfitting of the construction site would be concluded in the three first months of this year, but the newspaper Reforma reports that the work remains unfinished.

Deputy Hernández also noted that the cost of the project has increased from 169 billion pesos to 186 billion.

“Costs are increasing not only due to [a rise in the price of] supplies,” he said, “but also due to the peso-U.S. dollar exchange rate and the credits acquired by GACM.”

Hernández said the firm reports the airport is currently 35% complete.

“Preliminary works are 100% finished, executive projects are at 90% completion, runways 2 and 3 at 45% and will be finished in 2018, while excavation and foundation work for runway 6 is starting,” said the legislator.

Completion of the airport, which will be one of the world’s largest, has already been delayed once. It was initially scheduled for completion by next year but the last official announcement made by the federal government gave 2020 as a partial completion date.