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Santa Ana Area Residents Protest Against
Tolls On Autopista
The members of the civic action group,
Comité Cívico Pozeño, made of residents of
Santa Ana, Mora, Puriscal, Turrubares,
Orotina and smaller communities west of San
José, are demanding the government to cancel
the toll booths at Piedades de Santa Ana and
to restore the rights of residents lost with
the concession of the autopista Próspero
Fernández.
The Piedades de Santa Ana toll booths are
ready, however, the MOPT has yet to
authorize the road concessionaire,
Autopistas del Sol, to start collecting.
The action group argue that the autopista is
not nothing more than the same road, only
with a make over and a toll booth, which
forces area residents to pay a toll, each
way. The residents also say that their
safety in the area has been threatened, as
crossing the highway west of the toll booths
have become even more dangerous by the high
speed traffic.
The residents want the Consejo Nacional de
Concesiones (CNC) to call on the government
to pay attention to the problem and
particularly asking the new MOPT minister,
Marco Vargas, to listen to the complaints of
the residents.
The arguments include the construction of
the pedestrian overpasses on the autopista,
east and west of the Santa Ana interchange,
which appears to have been constructed
without tought or planning of any kind.
The anger of the action group is that area
residents have to pay the toll getting on
and off the autopista at Piedades de Santa
Ana, while through traffic does not. The
estimate that some 11.000 vehicles are
expected to cross the Piedades tolls every
day, while some 40.000 vehicles are expected
to drive through without crossing the tolls.
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