Akumal Norte Infrastructure

Maintaining Our Roads and Lights are Vecinos Responsibilities

Road Maintenance

Most people take our road for granted when they drive a car, drive a golf cart, ride a bike, or take a walk. 

But years ago, Akumal Norte's road was just a dirt path filled with ruts and holes. You were lucky if you made it to your home without having to repair your car. Bicycles, golf cart, scooters, and wheelchairs couldn't use it at all. And that's how it remained until some forward-thinking owners combined their resources to pave it, a project which took years to complete.

Today, most of us still do not think about the road. But like all roads, ours needs repairs and ongoing maintenance. Because of the "in between" public/private status of our community (please click here to learn more), Vecinos maintains our road with no help from Tulum. It's one of the essential services Vecinos provides, and it wouldn't be possible without members paying their dues and members and other community members making donations.

Recent road work funded by Vecinos member dues includes:

Topes near the Pluma were reshaped to make them less abrupt to protect your car's suspension and your back. We also added pavement marking tape to make them more visible at night and help prevent collisions with the Pluma gates

Replaced clogged or broken drainage inlet grates to reduce flooding and the safety and repair issues that come with it 

The road in front of Playa Caribe was sinking into a cenote beneath it and was in urgent need of repair. The road  was broken open, a concrete bridge was be built over the cenote below, and the road was rebuilt on top of it. 

Solar Lighting

Akumal Norte's solar lighting was designed to enhance the beauty and safety of our community in an ecologically friendly way that avoids interfering with turtle nests. The Initial lights were funded by individual owners as a special project coordinated by Vecinos. Today, there are dozens of lights throughout our community with more planned. Vecinos replaces the lights and replaces and refinishes their mounting poles as needed to keep our road safe and beautiful.