What for 30 years has been a punch line to jokes about Costa Rican government inefficiency finally got moving yesterday, as President Oscar Arias and other government officials inaugurated the construction of the San José-Caldera highway.
When completed, the 77-km stretch of road will cut driving time by almost a third from the capital to the Pacific coast down to less than an hour.
Ministry of Public Works and Transport head Karla González said concessionaire Autopistas del Sol � a consortium made up of a Spanish, a Portuguese and a Costa Rican company � has 30 months to complete the highway.
