Mexican president inaugurates new elevated highway in Tijuana near U.S.-Mexico border

For more than two years, thousands of drivers traveling along Avenida Internacional in Tijuana, one of the city’s busiest corridors running parallel to a section of the U.S.-Mexico border fence, have witnessed the construction of a large-scale elevated highway.

On Friday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was in Tijuana to inaugurate the first section of the nearly 7-mile project. Once completed, the Viaducto Elevado will run in both directions between Playas de Tijuana and Tijuana International Airport.

The $800 million project was built by the Mexican military, to whom Sheinbaum thanked for “this beautiful project, now open to all Baja Californians.”

Construction of the elevated highway was announced in 2021 by then-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Initially, it was expected to be completed before the end of his six-year term in 2024.

The project aims to improve connectivity in key areas of Tijuana, such as the international airport, the San Ysidro border crossing, Zona Centro, or downtown, Playas de Tijuana, and the highway to Rosarito and Ensenada.

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