Cancún to Install Smart Traffic Lights at 56 Conflict Points

Cancún, Quintana Roo — The city has detected at least 56 problematic intersections and will begin installing smart traffic lights at those points, even though the project has not yet been assigned a budget and the municipal administration has roughly a year remaining in office, according to the head of the local planning agency.

Edgar Fragoso Rodríguez, director of the Municipal Institute of Planning (IMPLAN) in Benito Juárez, the municipality that includes Cancún, said a team is already reviewing conditions for the modernization. “We have a team working on it and we’re still in the project phase,” he said.

The specific locations have yet to be finalized, Fragoso said, but planners have identified 56 conflict points that will be addressed gradually. He said the city will be divided into sectors for the assessment, starting with the original downtown area. “The idea is to address every intersection along the main avenues. We currently have roughly 56 points and we’ll work through them zone by zone. The founding zone, or downtown, is zone one where we’ve begun the research and intervention,” he added.

Fragoso acknowledged that no budget has been set because the project is still incomplete. He expressed confidence that the year left in the current administration will be sufficient. “It’s a project that will advance section by section, and we can cover it within that time,” he said.