No Electrical Service in Downtown San José Tomorrow and Next Sunday
The Compañía Nacional de Fuerza y Luz (CNFL) announced yesterday that it will be suspending electrical service to a large part of downtown San José tomorrow (Sunday) between the hours of 7am and 3pm.

The area affected will be from Calle 3 to Calle 11 between Avenida 2 and 3, which is to say from la Plaza de la Cultura to the Questa de Moras and Avenida Segunda to the Parque Morazan.

The suspension of service is to allow CNFL workers to connect the new underground cable system - a project that has been in the works for the last two years - to the electrical network.

On Sunday May 1, the CNFL will again suspend electrical service, this time to the south side of downtown, to connect the southern network.

At present 80% of the downtown customers are connected to the underground network, in real numbers it means 9.540 of some 12.000 customers will now be served from underground cabling instead of the overhead wires that has served them for many, many years.

The CNFL is installing new electrical meters, of which 3.783 of the 8.500 of the new meters has already been installed.

The project will greatly enhance the visual contamination of the downtown core, but until cable television, telephone and traffic light cables are buried as well, the CNFL cannot remove all the posts and wires that dangle overhead.