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Mexico City Begins Nightly Pothole Repairs Under Two-Year Maintenance Plan

The rollout prioritizes primary avenues with a 48-hour pledge for citizen reports.

En redes sociales circulan imágenes y videos del colapso, donde se observa cómo las y los automovilistas intentan orillarse para cruzar con cautela hacia el otro lado de la carretera. Foto: @GN_Carreteras
Paso por laterales ante socavón en carretera Cuatro Caminos-Apatzingán
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Overview

  • Night operations started August 19 on Eje 3 Oriente with full-lane closures from 22:00 to 05:00 and an initial schedule that includes Insurgentes (Aug 20), José Loreto Fabela (Aug 21), Eje 2 Oriente (Aug 22), Canal de Apatlaco (Aug 23), Canal de Tezontle (Aug 24) and Periférico (Aug 25).
  • Fifty night brigades will repair 10 kilometers per night for roughly 100 days to reach about 1,000 kilometers, supported by 480 workers, 52 trucks and more than 1,300 tonnes of asphalt.
  • A daytime rapid-response stream deploys 50 additional crews to fix reported defects within 48 hours via *0311/LOCATEL, with a WhatsApp chatbot dubbed Bachetel set to launch next week.
  • The third pillar schedules deep repaving of 250 linear kilometers (about 4.1 million m²) from October 2025 to May 2026, funded within a bianual investment of 2,250 million pesos.
  • Authorities cite 153 sinkholes this year and are pairing surface fixes with drainage works, including a new 2 km collector on Avenida Las Torres in Iztapalapa and ongoing repairs to two large cavities on Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza.