Back from the Twilight Zone...Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico right out of Kafka
Flew back to CA last night from Mexico City...what a Twilight Zone! Drove in from the Atotonilco on the plateau side of the Sierras...went through Pachuca...it has really grown...probably has 3 or 4 million people now...
Mexico City will probably be the world's first 50,000,000 person urban zone. There is still some open land between Pachuca and Mex City but really none between Mex City and Toluca. Last time we drove Puebla to Mex City there wasn't much either. Now Pachuca has the bad air as well. Heard the news where they said it wasn't safe to let your kids go outside to play and it wasn't safe to run or excercise either...civilization has it's price...ha!
Took us two ours to drive from Pachuca to Mexico City and another two hours to get from Insurgentes to near the airport where we stayed in a hotel. The viaductos or expressways are under construction with the detours sometimes leading to dead end streets. Went past one zone where the auto mechancics were fixing cars in the streets...even replacing engines...ha. That will slow down traffic...Mexico City is like something out of a Kafka novel...
Mexico City will probably be the world's first 50,000,000 person urban zone. There is still some open land between Pachuca and Mex City but really none between Mex City and Toluca. Last time we drove Puebla to Mex City there wasn't much either. Now Pachuca has the bad air as well. Heard the news where they said it wasn't safe to let your kids go outside to play and it wasn't safe to run or excercise either...civilization has it's price...ha!
Took us two ours to drive from Pachuca to Mexico City and another two hours to get from Insurgentes to near the airport where we stayed in a hotel. The viaductos or expressways are under construction with the detours sometimes leading to dead end streets. Went past one zone where the auto mechancics were fixing cars in the streets...even replacing engines...ha. That will slow down traffic...Mexico City is like something out of a Kafka novel...
