Ecatepec Plans to Paint 3,000 Home Fronts in San Andres de la Canada

A steep, narrow street in Ecatepec has been transformed with bright colors, new lighting and a pollinator garden, and the municipal government now plans to extend the work to about 3,000 homes.

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There are entire regions that are changing, and people have already begun to see and feel that change. Here there is color, but also light.

The first project covered 129 linear meters of Acacias Street in the Buenavista neighborhood, part of San Andres de la Canada in the Sierra de Guadalupe. Residents had built concrete stairs up the difficult slope, where vehicle access is almost impossible. The stairs and street were painted in multiple colors and marked with motivational phrases, while new lights created what officials call a Safe Path.

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Look at the lovely phrases they planted here. Color, light and security, that is what they need. And of course, we have asked them for gardens and flowers so the urban landscape, services and spirits can change.

Mayor Azucena Cisneros Coss said the project combines color and light as part of an effort to improve the urban landscape in an area long affected by neglect and stigma. She also asked residents to add gardens and flowers. Municipal painters from the Embellishing Public Space program worked alongside local residents, including children, young people and women.

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It was a very dark street, but today I think the artwork they created deserves the street, and the lighting certainly does too.

Resident Federico Roldan Lara said the street had once been very dark but now deserved the artwork and lighting. He said people traveling along the Old Road to San Andres by bus, taxi, minibus, motorcycle or on foot now notice that the area looks different.

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People traveling along the Old Road to San Andres, by bus, taxi, minibus, motorcycle or on foot, cannot stop looking over and seeing that there is something different.