Yorch Place

Mexico City the capital of my beloved country is located in the center of the country in the middle of mountains at 2000m above sea level, but since april 3th it has beaches.

The goverment of the city created artificial beaches with a cost of $200,000usd in order to provide a place to have fun in vacations, the beaches are free to everybody and according to the media 100,000 people has visited them.

The good point is, fun for free, and chilangos that no need to leave the city to go to the beaches, of course is no the same but it's nice.

The bad point, well it is very expensive, $200,000usd in tax money to have the people entertain, I hope the goverment put some stores in there in order to get some money back, or some plan to recover that investment and also made the places self sustainable, or else the beaches are going to be completly destroyed in a few years because of the lack of budget. They should consider to charge a symbolic fee, something like $10.00 pesos per person (less than a dollar) and $5.00 pesos per child. Also some charge for extra services and stuff, like a store with food, a store with beach stuff (t-shirts, balls, sunscreen, and other stuff), rental of towels, everything very affordable in order to help the beaches to stay nice and in good shape.