The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The death of an 18-year-old University of Guadalajara (UdG) student in an accident involving a city bus last week persuaded Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval to revoke the one-peso fare hike approved last year, with the exception of the Tren Ligero (subway) and Macrobus (BLT) routes.
The greater part of the construction of Guadalajara’s third subway line was put out to tender last week, a process that will finalize in a couple of months.
The Guadalajara metro area’s green lung, the Bosque de la Primavera, a natural area protected from development by a 1980 presidential decree, has just over 800 owners, including 421 private property owners, about 400 communal agrarian users (ejiditarios) and the state government.
Regular visitors to Guadalajara’s Galerias mall can be torn between two choices of membership-only warehouse clubs situated on either side of Avenida Rafael Sanzio: Sam’s and Costco.
The fate of the of the Villa Panamericana, built on the outskirts of Guadalajara to house athletes and officials participating in the 2011 Pan American Games, is still hanging in the balance.
The first 30 kilometers of the 111-kilometer Macrolibramiento highway to the south of Guadalajara could be open to traffic by the end of 2014.
A government-backed outreach center that provides support, education and accommodation to pregnant girls and young women aged from 10 to 18 has opened in Guadalajara – the first facility of its kind in the country.
Colectivo 4:20, a Guadalajara-based group created via social media that is campaigning to legalize marijuana in Mexico, took to the city’s premier avenue this week to disseminate information about the polemic substance.
Local print and broadcast journalists take part in a demonstration in Guadalajara’s Parque Revolucionario Sunday to draw attention to the ongoing climate of violence that has seen more than 140 of their colleagues killed or “disappear” in the past decade in Mexico.
