Overview
- Governor Alfonso Durazo launched a 2026 road program totaling 10,285 million pesos, funded by 7,000 million federal, 984 million state and 2,300 million in private investment.
- Key allocations include Guaymas–Chihuahua (4,000 million pesos), the Navojoa bypass (1,500 million), the Nogales bypass (800 million), Hermosillo–Bahía de Kino (500 million), Ímuris–Cananea (450 million) and Sonoyta–Puerto Peñasco (450 million), plus 106 million for rural “caminos artesanales.”
- Durazo said he will seek a concession for the Sonoyta–Puerto Peñasco corridor with tolls charged only to foreign-plated vehicles, citing 2.2 million annual visitors and a 450 million peso conservation push to stabilize the route.
- The governor estimated cumulative road spending in Sonora will reach 19,648 million pesos from 2021 through 2026 under the state–federal coordination.
- Nationally, the SICT announced 397,046 million pesos for 2026 highway works using public and mixed financing, listing projects that include Guaymas–Esperanza–Yécora–Chihuahua and adding Sonoyta–Puerto Peñasco to the federal highway program.