Three weeks after it was finished, Mexican President Felipe Calderon came to Jalisco to open a four-lane stretch of highway between Guadalajara and Colima on Thursday.
When further stages of work are complete there will eventually be four lanes along the entire highway from the state capital to the Pacific port and resort of Manzanillo.
“Modernizing this important road was urgent. It was widened to four lanes for 34 kilometers, two bridges were replaced and seven more were repaired,” Calderon tweeted shortly afterwards, noting that the new stretch “reduces travel time [by] 40 minutes.”
Later on Thursday, Calderon inaugurated the new Juan Jose Arreola state public library in the University of Guadalajara’s Cultural Center. Calderon toured three of the six floors, accompanied by Jalisco Governor Emilio Gonzalez Marquez and president of the University Cultural Center, Raul Padilla Lopez.
Situated on the northern Periferico ring road, this is the fourth location for the state public library since it was founded in 1861. The new facility cost 600 million pesos and has room to hold up to two million books.
Prior to the inauguration, Jalisco had just one library for every 26,159 inhabitants, the fifth worst ratio in Mexico.
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