Transportation Culiacán

1 transportation

1.1 transit system

1.1.1 urban transport
1.1.2 rail
1.1.3 bus station


1.2 roads , expressways

1.2.1 main roads
1.2.2 bridges , tunnels
1.2.3 highways , freeways


1.3 airport

transportation
transit system
urban transport

at present, culiacán has on 68 urban transport routes, serve 1 million users. culiacán urban transport operated redplus.

rail

the city has train station, operated ferromex, , used transport freight. connected south mazatlán , north guaymas.

bus station

culiacán uses central internacional de autobuses millennium ( millennium international buses station) travel across mexico (north, central, , south) , united states (arizona , california). replaced old bus terminal in southern city.

roads , expressways

though several high-speed roads have been built, of city s streets rather narrow , traffic jams common @ rush hours. now, 300,000 cars in culiacan, making per capita number of cars 1 of highest in country considering 745,000 inhabitants.

main roads

culiacán has several roads (avenues, boulevards, streets, etc.), of these main quick connection other points of city.

bridges , tunnels

the city has total of 13 bridges: 6 across tamazula river, 2 spanning humaya river, , longest 1 other 4 crossing culiacán river. efforts solve traffic problems have been made, of city streets , bridges crowded , insufficient handle regular , rush hours traffic; 40-km/h speed limit in parts of city worsens situation.

musalá bridge (tamazula river)
musalá-universitaria bridge (tamazula river)
benito juárez bridge (tamazula river)
morelos bridge (tamazula river)
miguel hidalgo bridge (tamazula river)
juan de dios bátiz-tres ríos brige (tamazula river)
josefa ortíz de domínguez bridge (humaya river)
rafael buelna bridge (humaya river)
jorge almada bridge (culiacán river)
black rail brige (culiacán river)
rolando arjona amabilis-udo (culiacán river)
use-valle alto (culiacán river)
libramiento recursos (rosales channel)
eje federalismo bridges (rosales channel)
chavez castro bridge (rosales channel)
emiliano zapata pass bridge (rosales channel)

also, culiacán has bridges in streets conforming high transit systems in places rush hour common.

zapata (blvd. emiliano zapata)
280-aeropuerto (blvd. aeropuerto)
eje aeropuerto (blvd. aeropuerto-emiliano carranza street)
mexico 15 (plan mar de cortes-mexican federal highway 15)
primavera (plan mar de cortes-la primavera)
eje el trébol (plan mar de cortes-blvd. jesús kumate)
eje federalismo tunnels (gabriel leyva solano/francisco i. madero-federalismo)
udo (blvd. rolando arjona-blvd. lola beltrán) under construction
gasolinera del valle (blvd. jesús kumate-blvd. emiliano zapata) under construction
japac country (blvd. pedro infante-blvd. rolando arjona) spring 2013

on feb. 17, 2014, investigators mexico , united states learned joaquín guzmán loera, or el chapo, using underground sewage tunnels in culiacán constructing hatches connecting drainage network in bathtubs of city stash houses . on @ least 1 occasion, authorities chased guzman tunnels, lost him. ap reporter said of tunnels lit, had wood paneling, , air conditioned.

highways , freeways

culiacán rail junction , located on panamerican highway runs north united states , south guadalajara , mexico city, , benito juárez highway or maxipista, toll road runs parallel toll-free federal highway. connected north los mochis , south mazatlán, tepic, , guadalajara federal highway 15.

mexican federal highway 15 (north: los mochis, south: mazatlán)
sanalona free highway (southeast: sanalona (exit)/cosalá)

culiacán linked satellite city of navolato excellent freeway reaches altata, in pacific ocean coast. culiacán linked tamazula de victoria in durango state.

freeway 280-30 (west: navolato-altata)
freeway 3-225 (north: melchor ocampo-guamuchil)
freeway 5-325 (south: costa rica-el dorado)
tamazula interstate freeway (northeast: sanalona-tamazula de victoria)

airport

culiacán served federal de bachigualato international airport (iata: cul, icao: mmcl), important domestic gateway in state of sinaloa, , second in international operations after mazatlán international airport. located south of downtown; 10th mexican air force base.