The new Cinta Costera or coastal highway in the City is another huge project that was completed last year and is expanding again next year.  The best news thus far is the governments consideration of the old City or Casco Antiguo, a UNNESCO world heritage site, is the proposal to tunnel under the city as opposed to ringing in the City with a highway.  A great releif to me and some of my clients that are working on a huge hotel deal there as the water views back to Punta Paitilla and Punta Pacifica will not be marred by a blurr of traffic.

This from CentralAmericaData.com and Prensa.com

Expansion in Panama´s Coastal Highway

©image: Enrique Della Cella

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Source: Prensa.com
Thursday, October 21, 2010

With an underground tunnel which would connect Avenida Balboa and Avenida de los Poetas the third phase of the coastal strip would be completed.

“In the project statement, published yesterday in Panama Compra, the Ministry of Public Works (MOP) said that ‘the studies resulted in solving the interconnection with an underpass and a tunnel which would go under the area of El Chorrillo,” published Prensa.com.

Federico Jose Suarez, head of the Ministry of Public Works, pointed out when introducing the road reorganization plan for the capital, that bidders for the project could present different proposals.