ioned study to prove there will be sufficient passenger an cargo volume to make the line commercially viabli The agency in charge of the endeavor, Fonatur, ha described the Mayan Train as a "social" projec whose main goal is boosting the economy of th Yucatan Peninsula by way of hotel construction an

nterested yet confused par- ties to fill a 253-page document. The session sched- uled to respond to those queries had to be delayed a month to allow Fonatur enough time to come up with answers. "Look, I'm not against the train," says Eduardo Ramirez, president of the Mexican Chamber of the Construction

the town along the train's routes to be profitable, and tha goes beyond how many tourists use the train;' say Aaron Rosado, the Yucatan liaison at Fonatur, th national fund for tourism promotion. The mediai household income across the five states is half tha of the capital, Mexico City. Chiapas, one