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This is a list of autopistas, or tolled (cuota) highways, in Mexico. Tolled roads are often built as bypasses, as toll bridges , and to provide direct intercity connections. Many federal highways corridors numbers cover more than one autopista ; other federal highways do not have limited access sections.
This is a list of numbered federal highways (carreteras federales) in Mexico. Federal Highways from north to south are assigned odd numbers; highways from west to east are assigned even numbers. The numbering scheme starts in the northwest of the country (in Tijuana, Baja California).
High-speed expressways, known as autopistas or carreteras de cobro, are limited-access toll roads with controlled interchanges. Access to these roads is generally prohibited for pedestrians and animal-drawn vehicles, and fences are located at the side of the road for most of the length. Autopistas are highways with four or more defined lanes.
The highway network in Mexico is classified by number of lanes and type of access. The great majority of the network is composed of undivided or divided two-lane highways, with or without shoulders, and are known simply as carreteras. Four or more-lane freeways or expressways, with restricted or unrestricted access, are known as autopistas ...
Unlike most other autopistas in Mexico, the highway is an undivided two-lane expressway for most of its route. The highway widens to a four-lane divided highway for about a kilometer near Fed. 295. The bypass has one toll booth, located at the Fed. 184 interchange.
The Autopista Mérida-Cancún was formally opened on December 23, 1991, by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. [14] Operation of the road was a joint venture between Fomento de Infraestructura Turística, S.A. de C.V. (Fomintur) and Consorcio del Mayab. In 2011, Fomintur was declared behind on its payments, resulting in its dissolution.
The first and oldest segment of Highway 95D is that running between Mexico City and Cuernavaca, which was the second toll road in the country. [3] The original construction of the highway was performed by Compañía Constructora del Sur, S.A. de C.V., a state-controlled predecessor to Caminos y Puentes Federales, the government agency that maintains the México–Cuernavaca highway as well as ...
Federal Highway 16 (Spanish: Carretera Federal 16, Fed. 16) is a free part of the federal highways corridors (Spanish: los corredores carreteros federales) of Mexico. [ 3 ] Fed. 16 runs west-east through the northern Sierra Madre Occidental cordillera .