The governor of Baja California, Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda, led the opening of the first phase of the Lázaro Cárdenas and Carranza distributor road, one of the mega projects of the RESPIRA program, which benefits and generates more wellbeing for all Baja Californians.

The first phase of this project consisted of building an underpass in Bulevar Venustiano Carranza from south-to-north, with a left turn to the west into Bulevar Lázaro Cárdenas. The governor said this road where 100,000 vehicles drive on every day can now be used.

"We continue to work on this great RESPIRA program, with the projects that our city needs. This work is one of the most important ones with a total cost of 767 million pesos, and if we add all the ones that we have built in Mexicali, we have invested 1.600 billion pesos here."

With the infrastructure projects that are taking place in the state, the current administration has become the one that has built the most in the history of Baja California, and it has only been two years of this government, Ávila Olmeda stated.

The head of the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Urban Development, and Territory Redesign, Arturo Espinoza Jaramillo, stated that it is estimated that the project concludes in November.

The first phase had an investment of 396.71 million pesos. The second phase, with an investment of 371 million pesos, is more than 50% finished and it consists of an elevated bridge with three lanes from west-to-east of the Lázaro Cárdenas bridge, with an incorporation ramp towards Bulevar Carranza, Espinoza Jaramillo said.

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