Baja Road Report for July 6th 2004
The construction south of Ensenada to widen the road continues with fairly well created detours (desviacion). There is however a lack of markings for night driving so take it slow if driving at night south towards Meandero.
There is the regular rough road going from Colonet through San Quintín caused by the heavy farm equipment traffic. There are still some rough areas around Catavina but there is also a lot of new highway between there and the Baja Norte, Baja Sur border at Guerro Negro.
From there you will find more new road intermixed with a few bad areas of rough road patch. There is more, rough road, south of San Ignacio and then it smoothes out to Santa Rosalía. Just after the cuesta del infierno (hell hill, I just love that name) you will encounter some rough and poorly repaired road entering Santa Rosalía. The reason so many areas near and in around towns are so bad is that they are not apart of the Federal Caminos system controlled but the SCT (Secretaria Comunicaciones y Transporte). Therefore it is up to those little towns to repair and mark their sections and obviously it is not a priority for what little money they have.
As mentioned above while the crews are working on most of the bad road sections between Mulege and Loreto they have not finished and it can be very rough going from the paved highway to dirt and back. Once leaving the Sea of Cortez to head over to the Pacific side you will find the construction I saw my last trip all finished and painted. This is where we saw the paint equipment in use on the way up and finished on the way back. They truly are getting faster at some things.
As mentioned before there is still a lot of construction just north of La Paz. In fact my partner who was driving a truck and pulling a 4000 pound dual wheeled axel trailer said this was the worst part of the trip. In the last 5 miles before the fruit and drug inspections of La Paz we encountered two long sections of highway torn up for re-paving. Expect this to be like this for the next month or so.
There is the regular rough road going from Colonet through San Quintín caused by the heavy farm equipment traffic. There are still some rough areas around Catavina but there is also a lot of new highway between there and the Baja Norte, Baja Sur border at Guerro Negro.
From there you will find more new road intermixed with a few bad areas of rough road patch. There is more, rough road, south of San Ignacio and then it smoothes out to Santa Rosalía. Just after the cuesta del infierno (hell hill, I just love that name) you will encounter some rough and poorly repaired road entering Santa Rosalía. The reason so many areas near and in around towns are so bad is that they are not apart of the Federal Caminos system controlled but the SCT (Secretaria Comunicaciones y Transporte). Therefore it is up to those little towns to repair and mark their sections and obviously it is not a priority for what little money they have.
As mentioned above while the crews are working on most of the bad road sections between Mulege and Loreto they have not finished and it can be very rough going from the paved highway to dirt and back. Once leaving the Sea of Cortez to head over to the Pacific side you will find the construction I saw my last trip all finished and painted. This is where we saw the paint equipment in use on the way up and finished on the way back. They truly are getting faster at some things.
As mentioned before there is still a lot of construction just north of La Paz. In fact my partner who was driving a truck and pulling a 4000 pound dual wheeled axel trailer said this was the worst part of the trip. In the last 5 miles before the fruit and drug inspections of La Paz we encountered two long sections of highway torn up for re-paving. Expect this to be like this for the next month or so.
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