LETTERS
On the
Escazu tolls, and more
"Not only is it outrageously expensive, a
simple warm over of what we had before, but
who and the hell has 10 colones? Escazu was
already suffocating from traffic and now it
has drowned. As the saying goes, "In the US
people will die of stress, here it is from
frustration." T
his is a highway designed for the upper
middle class and rich who have an ashtray
full of 10 centavos and don't mind paying
the price of a Big Mac just to be on a
non-pothole road still under construction.
(Today I gave the peaje 61 ten ccolones to
count just to piss them off with my personal
protest an on the way back a 10,000 bill.)
Can I afford 620 round trip? "Yes," but can
the average Costa Rica working stiff?
That's the question. Imagine every day, six
days a week or 3,720 colones per working
week.
From Santa Ana I can get to Cima, Price
Smart, Office Depot not to mention
Multiplaza without a toll. But if I am
coming east to west... the turn off is about
300 meters from the peaje and it will cost
me 310 colones. That's 100 colones per 100
meters.
As Rev. Jess Jackson once said, "Let's take
common sense to the next level."
J. Holtz
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Whoever the idiot was that thought up the
310 colones toll should be hung out to dry.
It would be easier at 300 colones and the
booth attendant would not have to make
change in most cases thus the traffic would
move faster. Having gone thru this mess
yesterday mass confusion does reign because
of 10 colones.
g. belcoe
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I can't find the "Comment" button on your
news stories.
D. Alvarez
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