Behind the debate over the Maya Train, as the project is known, is the question of what to do to improve social conditions in the Yucatán, which historically has been left out of the development and ...

For nearly a thousand miles, (1,460 kilometers) the high-speed Maya Train will wind its way around Mexico’s southern Yucatan Peninsula. When it’s completed, it’ll connect tourist hubs like Cancun and ...

The Maya Train, one of Mexico's most iconic infrastructure projects, revealed that only 20% of its users are foreign tourists, according to data shared during a collaboration agreement between the ...

Now, construction of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s crown jewel project — the Maya Train — is rapidly destroying part of that hidden underground world, already under threat by development and ...

Mexico’s Maya Train, a billion-dollar tourist rail project begun under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s direction, is half completed yet has yet to see the popularity or ridership that was ...

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Few moments in travel feel like you're watching history in motion – literally. Stepping aboard Mexico’s gleaming new Tren Maya (Mayan Train) in Mérida and whizzing comfortably through Yucatán to ...