Chapala-Guadalajara Road closed 8 am to 2 pm

[Taaffe]

From a Mexican whatsapp group

AVISO  el día de mañana estarán cerradas todas las entradas a Guadalajara, por motivo de huelga de los chatarreros, a partir de las 8 am.

Mañana estará cerrada la carretera a chapala para que pasen la voz de las 8 a las 2 pm la van a tomar los que tienen recicladoras de plástico por si tienen vuelos o necesitan pasar por ahí tomen sus precauciones desde hoy 👍

 

NOTICE tomorrow will be closed all the entrances to Guadalajara, because of strike of the scrap metal, from 8 am.

 Tomorrow the road will be closed to chapala so that the word from 8 to 2 pm it in case they have flights or need to pass by, take their precautions from today

 

its unclear to me why but in case someone has urgent business it is a precaution 

something to do with recyclers

[jrod]

 

UPDATE: A friend currently on the Carretera to Guadalajara who runs a twitter traffic feed messaged me that the backlog from the protests at the Periférico are now expected from 10-noon today. Currently clear.

The people who recycle scrap metal, plastics and glass for a living (supposedly some 6 million Mexicans subsist on their income from this endeavor) are protesting privatization of local recycling efforts. The access point to Guadalajara from the Guadalajara-Chapala highway at the Periférico (among others) indeed is now blocked by protestors, and that should back up traffic considerably, although as of 8:48 am the road is reported to be clear (as clear as it usually is with rush-hour traffic) northbound to Guadalajara. Southbound, there are two accidents clogging the highway by the airport.

If clogged heading north, an alternative route is the eastbound road that parallels the highway, then you can cut back west to get to the airport.