Federal Highway 140D (''La Carretera Federal 14d'') is a

toll Toll may refer to: Transportation * Toll (fee) a fee charged for the use of a road or waterway ** Road pricing, the modern practice of charging for road use ** Road toll (historic) The road toll was a historical fee charged to travellers and ...

(quota) part of the federal highways corridors (los corredores carreteros federales) that connects

Puebla City Puebla de Zaragoza (; nah, Cuetlaxcoapan), formally Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza, formerly Puebla de los Ángeles during colonial times, or known in English simply as Puebla, is the seat of Puebla Municipality. It is the capital and largest city ...

Xalapa Xalapa or Jalapa (, ), officially Xalapa-Enríquez (), is the capital city of the Mexican state of Veracruz and the name of the surrounding municipality. In the 2005 census the city reported a population of 387,879 and the municipality of which ...

Route description

Fed. 140D begins east of Puebla City near

Amozoc de Mota Amozoc de Mota is a city located in Puebla, Mexico. Its borders are in the north, the Malintzin volcano; in the south, the "Sierra de Amozoc"; in the west, the Acajete municipal seat; and in the west, the capital of the State Puebla city. Amozoc ...

and proceeds northeast through Puebla and Tlaxcala, with notable interchanges at Zitlaltepec,

Cuapiaxtla Cuapiaxtla (municipality) is a municipality in Tlaxcala in south-eastern Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North Americ ...

, Libres and

Tepeyahualco Tepeyahualco (municipality) is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Puebla in south-eastern Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the so ...

; this segment was built by OHL and costs 127

pesos The peso is the monetary unit of several countries in the Americas, and the Philippines. Originating in the Spanish Empire, the word translates to "weight". In most countries the peso uses the same sign, "$", as many currencies named "dollar" ...

to travel in its entirety. It enters Veracruz near Perote, after which maintenance is taken over by Copexa. Copexa charges a toll of 139 pesos per car for the segment between Perote and Banderilla, which passes through Las Vigas de Ramírez, and another 139 pesos for the following segment, the Libramiento de Xalapa, which bypasses the city altogether. For a short portion east of Xalapa, Fed. 140D and Fed. 140 share the same routing, though Fed. 140D returns to bypass

Plan del Río A plan is typically any diagram or list of steps with details of timing and resources, used to achieve an objective to do something. It is commonly understood as a temporal set of intended actions through which one expects to achieve a goal. F ...

, a tolled segment that charges users 40 pesos and is operated by Concesiones y Promociones Malibrán, S.A. de C.V.

References

Mexican Federal Highways {{Mexico-road-stub