“The Maya Train has only been fully operational for five months and already questions about its profitability have been raised. The latest doubts come not from the project’s innumerable critics, but from the director of the railway.”
MND Staff
It was billed and promoted as a tourism-oriented passenger train, but it can’t break even without income from freight service, its director admits.
Whether you’re going to Cancún, Palenque, Izamal or Chichén Itzá, Bel Woodhouse has travelled it — and she’s got some tips.
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The railway project’s leaders hope to spur economic growth and reduce migration pressures by modernizing cargo and travel corridors across Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
