MOPT Promises Completion of Overpasses by April
The death of the young woman Thursday morning has renewed calls for the need of pedestrian overpasses on the country's busiest highways.

The woman was run over by a passing vehicle as she tried to cross the busy highway in front of the CIMA hospital, the same place where the pedestrian overpass in being built. Tránsito officials say the woman must has misjudged the distance and speed of the oncoming vehicle.

The Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes (MOPT) has already finished the first two of the six pedestrian overpasses, working on the other four, which according to MOPT vice-minister, Pedro Gutiérrez, will be finished by April.

The two pedestrian overpasses along the General Cañas in front of the Mall Cariari and Residencial Los Arcos several hundred metres away, were begun during the last administration and opened for public use last June.

The others, one along the Próspero Fernández in front of the CIMA hospital in Escazú, the same place where the woman lost her life yesterday, is under construction. The other to be built in front of Multiplaza, a kiloemtre down the road from the CIMA and the ones along the Florencio de Castillo, the highway to Cartago, have yet to be started.

In the meantime, MOPT crews are busy painting haloed hearts that indicate a pedestrian death, along the highways.