Viaducto Miguel Alemán is a crosstown freeway, opened in September 1950, that runs east-west across central Mexico City . In the center of the road is a river encased in cement to control flooding. Metro Viaducto is named after this road.
4-579: The encased duct that is contained at the center of the freeway carries water from the west-city hillsides, specifically from the Tacubaya and Becerra rivers. At the east end of the freeway, the river discharges its waters into the Churubusco River, also enclosed. The Viaducto Miguel Alemán is nomenclature-wise divided in three sections: The Viaducto was originally planned by architect Carlos Contreras as early as 1925, together with other major roads such as
8-507: The Anillo Periférico . This article about the roads and road transport of Mexico is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Anillo Perif%C3%A9rico The Anillo Periférico known by locals as el periférico (Spanish for peripheral ring ) is the outer beltway of Mexico City . The Periferico was originally planned by architect Carlos Contreras as early as 1925, together with other major roads such as
12-538: The Viaducto Miguel Alemán . Some parts of the beltway were built to follow the bed of a river; the flow of the river was modified to flow through a pipe. The beltway gained major media attention when the then Mexico City mayor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador , started a project to turn a southern section of the ring into a two-story highway. The second level was finished in 2006 in the Federal District and in
16-606: The State of Mexico in 2009. From Cuautitlán in the north (State of Mexico) to Naucalpan at the Federal District border the second floor operates as the Viaducto Elevado Bicentenario ("Bicentennial Elevated Viaduct"). From the old bullring (Toreo) at the north of the Federal District to San Jerónimo in the southwest the second level is called the Autopista Urbana Norte ("Northern Urban Tollway"). At San Jerónimo
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