Toll Booths Closed Daily
To Avoid Congestion
Travelling through the
toll booths of the
autopistas General Cañas
and the Próspero
Fernández will be easier
thanks to a new
regulation that will
suspend the charging of
tolls during weekdays.
The toll booths of the
General Cañas will be
closed between 7am and
7am weekdays, while the
tool booths of the
Próspero Fernández will
be closed between 7a,
amd 9:30am and 3pm and
8pm.
The suspension of the
tolls is move traffic
through the congested
autopistas and not
create additional
bottlenecks, which has
seen, at times, traffic
backing up to the
Cerveceria on the
General Cañas and
Hipermas on the Próspero.
The toll booths on both
autopistas will also be
closed on Saturdays
between 11am and 1:30pm.
During all other times,
the toll booths will
operate normally
charging ¢75 colones for
passenger vehicles (¢100
on the voluntary lane).
The ministra de Obras
Públicas y Transportes,
Karla González,
explained that a
technical study
indicated the need to
suspend charges at the
toll booths to allow for
better traffic flow.
According to the
Ministerio de Obras
Públicas y Transportes
(MOPT) figues, the
number of vehicles daily
passing throuhg the
tolls on the General
Cañas is 23.000 and on
the Próspero Fernández,
22.000.
The tolls on the
Florencio del Castillo
(route to Cartago),
which moves some 20.000
vehicles daily and the
Braulio Carrillo (route
to Limón) and the
Bernardo Soto (Naranjo
toll station) will all
continue to charge tolls
on a 24 hour basis as
usual.
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