Carlos Santillán Doherty, general director of ciaO: “It isn’t just a train to serve tourists. The Mayan Train is a regional development project. In reality, it tries to regulate and structure mobility and the explosive urban development of the region, having as its axis a train, not a road. The train will offer mobility to the region that has the highest annual population growth rate in Mexico. It will benefit the communities that will be able to move more easily to the great centers of educational and health services in the peninsula. Management of a road right of way is more complicated and more frequently results in irregularities. A train is more contained. A road tends to branch out with irregular accesses that must be watched, and the environmental impact of roads is greater. If there is no mass transportation, there may be a more pernicious impact on the peninsula due to the population growth in the area. The road, simply because of its geometry…”