General Cañas Highway Closed Tonight For Bridge Construction
The Consejo Nacional de Vialidad and Productos de Concreto announced the closure of the General Cañas highway - the main route to and from the airport and San José - in front of the Real Cariari mall beginning at 8pm tonight (April 1) until 6am Sunday morning.

The closure is to allow workers to erect the arch of the pedestrian bridge that is under construction in front of the Cariari mall.

Traffic into San José will be rerouted to the side road in front of the Herrardura and Cariari hotels, while traffic to the airport will re-routed at the Conservatorio Castella and onto the old Heredia road which follows back onto the Genaral Cañas past the Cariari mall.

Best bet is to avoid the area altogether or use the Heredia route from San José or Belen route from Escazú.

The bridge construction is expected to be finished by June 1, when construction on a similar bridge a few hundred metres away on the same highway, at the Residencial Los Arcos, begins.

The bridges will hopefully eliminate the mad dash across the busiest highway in Costa Rica, pedestrians have been accustomed to to cross the street. A number of deaths have been recorded at both points where the bridges are being constructed.

The same type of pedestrian bridges are being planned for the Florencio del Castillo (Cartago) and PPróspero Fernández (Escazú) highways and the Circunvalación.