Panama Will Spend More Than $1.5 Billion To Ease Traffic Congestion in Panama City

(Panama-Guide) - El Siglo - The "rearrangement" of traffic in Panama City, where more than 400,000 cars circulate daily, will cost more than $1.5 billion dollar, said yesterday the Panamanian Minister of Public Works, Federico Suarez. Suarez told PRC Radio the traffic plan would "exceed the figure of $1.5 billion dollars in projects we are going to be building over the next three years." Minister Suarez spoke about the subject at a ceremony to deliver the order to proceed to the Colombian company Conalvías, for the project to expand an important avenue of capital, valued at $21 million dollars, which formally starts the greater plan. The projects include widening streets and building overpasses to ease traffic at intersections, interconnections between the roadways of high fluidity, and the improvement and adjustment of routes. 

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Original Source: Panama-Guide

Date Retrieved: November 20, 2010.