Playa del Carmen Rural Communities to Get Road to Federal Highway 307

Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo — Federal authorities are reviewing a proposal to build a road connecting the rural community of Campesinos Unidos to Federal Highway 307 near Playa del Carmen, the environmental agency confirmed.

The Environmental Impact and Risk Directorate (DGIRA) said the study for the project is under analysis, although the final resolution has not yet been posted on its website. The project was submitted by Mexico’s Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT) to obtain an environmental impact statement.

The planned road would run from kilometer 0+000 to kilometer 10+000, a total of 10 kilometers (about 6.2 miles), with a 7-meter-wide roadway featuring two 3.5-meter lanes. The junction with Highway 307 would be located opposite Tres Ríos, roughly one kilometer from the surveillance booth at the northern exit of Playa del Carmen.

According to the project documents, the existing road is in poor condition. It consists of a thin stone layer over a transition layer of clayey silt with gravel and small fragments, interspersed with areas of high-plasticity clay across much of the route. The remainder is slightly altered limestone with varying degrees of fracturing. The current width ranges from 3.5 to 4 meters.

The new road would benefit several nearby rural communities, including Nuevo Noh-Bec, Colonia El Recuerdo, Los Faisanes, Flores 1, Cenote El Mariposario, Cenote Cocom, and the “Rey de Reyes” Adventist camp, among others. The municipality currently maintains unpaved farm-access roads to Santa Cecilia, Campesinos Unidos, Xul-ha, and connector routes such as Cristo Rey–Nuevo Noh-Bec and Nuevo Noh-Bec–Campesinos Unidos. These dirt roads are in poor condition, slow travel, and cause wear on transport and cargo vehicles, with conditions worsening during rainy spells.

For construction, SICT plans to source fill material from three nearby stone quarries — El Pitayo, El Caracol 2, and Gorsa — and will request the corresponding permits if those sites are used. The project is estimated to cost between 75 million and 100 million pesos, funded from the federal budget over two years.