Avenues to be modernized, built for new Mexico City international airport

Eight avenues will be modernized or expanded for the new Mexico City international airport. Also, nine highways will be renewed and four more will be built as well as six new distributors.

Raúl Murrieta Cummings, deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Mexico's Ministry of Communications, said the works, that will cost 40 billion pesos (US$2.42 billion), will separate the airport's traffic from the city's regular operation.

"The ring system will help people get to the airport by surrounding the city instead of cutting across it,” he explained.

Also, six public transportation projects will be built for the new airport, including four bus systems similar to the metrobus with capacity to transport 274,872 passengers per day, Yuriria Mascott Pérez, deputy minister of Transportation, explained.

Two of these lines will be new: Pantitlán-Airport, 14 kilometers (8.6 miles) long and with a capacity to transport 167,000 passengers per day and Río de los Remedios- Airport, 13 kilometers (8 miles) long and with a capacity to transport 51,915 passengers per day. The work will start in 2016 and is scheduled to be concluded by 2018.

The lines 4 and 6 of the Metrobús will also be extended. The work will start in 2018 and the lines are scheduled to start operating in 2020.