Sayulita Scenes - The New Boulevard Update - March 2017

The New Boulevard project continues to progress and is nearing "functionality".  I say "functionality" because it appears to be close to being able to handle car traffic in the near future.  I might even say that it may be able to handle traffic in another 6 weeks or so.  But...."it's Mexico" as they say so who knows.  At this time there seems to be a lot of other detail type things going on outside the general roadway like burying conduit and hooking up light posts etc.  Some of the businesses on the entry corridor are actually accessible to car traffic now but it is a dead end once you reach the mid point in the roadway.  Locally owned businesses along the corridor have been essentially cut off for months from the easy access and drive by traffic they were so dependent on.

Ashley and I went for a walk yesterday, 3/3/17, to check it out and I shot a handful of photos beginning from the old bus stop and walking toward the intersection with the Punta Mita highway.
My impressions?  It looks to be very "grand" and "tidy" but drab and a bit lack luster.  When town received it's new updated sidewalks and plaza improvements 5 years ago it was all slated to be grey stamped concrete.  Some locals got involved and were able to get the stamped concrete colored to the terra cotta color for the sidewalks we have now.  An improvement over plain grey in my opinion.  Sayulita is so very colorful and is part if it's character.  I love the bold and sometimes gaudy colors of Sayulita.  The new entry is just kind of "blah".  I am guessing there will be landscaping of sorts to be added before the end of the project which may help.  Yes, it will be functional but as a "welcome corridor" to Sayulita it just does not quite fit as it appears now.  We will now have three different looks in town when completed.  Three different puzzle pieces stuck together.  The entry corridor, the north end and then the downtown/south end.  All have their own look and character.

Town and I am sure visitors will be so thankful this project is done and more normal traffic flows can happen once again.  Completion still to come.

In front of the bus stop.

Approaching the bomberos office and Animal Love.

Approaching the old Esteva Clinic.  Bomberos on the right.

Near the Sayulita Car Wash

Looking towards the Punt Mita Highway intersection.

UPDATE: 3/21/2017
Some color arrives.  The new sidewalks that will frame the new boulevard appear to be colored the same terra cotta color as the stamped concrete sidewalks that were completed in town a few years back.  Happy to see this.