Overview
- The state announced the toll-free project is in final planning with an estimated cost of 9.5 billion pesos and a construction period of about three years.
- Planners aim to reuse 17 kilometers of the Capácuaro–Peribán state road and route the link via Zacán to the Zamora–Jacona bypass to ease metropolitan congestion.
- Key technical details remain unsettled, with officials citing either a 73-kilometer length or a figure exceeding 90 kilometers as alignments are refined.
- Authorities say the highway is intended to cut up to an hour from cargo trips to the Bajío and strengthen connectivity to the Mexico–Nogales corridor.
- Federal SICT leaders report 24,841 million pesos for modernizing 253 kilometers of federal roads in Michoacán, with the Siglo XXI Pátzcuaro–Uruapan segment near completion and phased openings planned.