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Legislators
Demand Caldera Highway Be Finished Before
Charging Tolls
A group of legislators of the Partido Acción
Ciudadana (PAC) and the Movimiento
Libertario (ML) are demanding that the
ministerio de Obras Publicas y Tranportes (MOPT)
refrain from charging tolls on the new
highway to Caldera, until the road is
completely finished.
The legislators are also asking that the
number of complaints be also solved before
the toll booths at Escazú and Santa Ana
begin to collect from drivers.
"It is not possible that Costa Ricans are
asked to pay for the expansion the toll
areas", said ML legislator, Mario Quirós.
The tolls on the road that is now in the
hands of the concessionaire, Autopistas del
Sol, was to have begun on May 9.
However, failure to complete many portions
of the highway, including the toll booths
themselves, where temporary lighting has to
be used at nights to illuminate the toll
areas, gapes in the dividing barriers, and
non completion of the expansion of the
Circunvalacion and Multiplaza bridges,
among many other problems, have set back the
commencement of the tolls.
Instead toll booth attendants stand idle
handing out mock receipts to those drivers
who stop at the toll booths, some for
curiosity, others not aware that the toll
are not in operation.
The tolls on the road will be ¢310 colones,
each way, at Escazú and ¢160 colones, each
way, at Piedades de Santa Ana, for passenger
vehicles, higher for buses and trucks.
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