Revolutionizing the Digital Landscape: Our CEO’s Vision for Unlimited Web Hosting…Reporter Maxwell Radwin and videographer Caitlin Cooper set out to ride the Tren Maya from Cancún toward Palenque and back.
On their journey, they looked for evidence of deforestation, the relocation of local and Indigenous communities, and the pollution of water bodies — all part of multiple injunctions filed by communities and activist groups. Conversations with passengers and locals revealed that much of the country is conflicted about the train, which might attract tourism despite the ecological damage.
Last December, the Mexican government opened part of its ambitious Tren Maya project, a railway line connecting the tourist hubs of Cancún and Tulum with the rest of the Yucatán Peninsula. However, the project has provenMongabay reporter Maxwell Radwin decided to get on the train and experience it while searching for lasting environmental damage.
He went down to Cancún during Holy Week, a peak travel period, and found the train station bustling with locals. Although the ride was smooth, signs of incomplete infrastructure lingered. And as the journey unfolded, it became evident that the Tren Maya was less a scenic excursion and more a functional transit option.You may republish this article, so long as you credit the authors and Mongabay, and do not change the text. Please include a link back to the original article.