Alajuelita
Rotonda To Be
Closed
Completely
Tonight
The Alajuelita
rotonda will be
completely
closed off
tonight
beginning at 9pm
and until 5am
Monday.
The builder of
the overpass of
the rotonda,
MECO, made the
announcement to
close off the
intersection
completely as it
installs bridge
sections
weighing up to
70 tons each.
The work on the
superstructure,
as it is being
called, is
moving along
with a
completion date
slated by the
end of June.
When completed,
traffic along
the
Circunvalación
will move over
the six lane
bridge, while
traffic from San
José to
Alajuelita will
move under the
bridge, cutting
down traffic
congestion.
The
Circunvalación
is the ring road
from the west to
the east side,
running along
the south of San
José.
The road was
built with a
series of
rotondas to
handle cross
traffic.
However, an
increase in
traffic made the
rotondas
obsolete,
becoming a
source of
traffic
congestion and
bottlenecks.
So far the
rotondas at
Desamparados and
San Sebastian
have been
modified with an
over and under
pass. Once the
Alajuelita
overpass is
complete, all
that remains to
be modified is
the Paso Ancho
and Zapote
rotondas.
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