How To Waste ¢1.5 billion Colones?

Well, the city of Alajuela has a jump on this. The city will now have to spend more money to remove the paving stones it spent ¢1.5 billion colones to install and all for lack of maintenance.



The situation with the stones is such that it has become a source of traffic congestion in the middle of the city on a stretch of a couple of city blocks between the municipal offices and the Santamaría park.

The stones did not resist the passage of vehicles, possibly to poor installation, but definitely to the lack of maintenance. City traffic officials have to learn that you just can't lay down a road surface, have thousands of vehicles pass over it each day and last the test of time and weather conditions.

According to experts, the based used for the stones was inadequate and combined with poor road planning resulted in a waste of resources.

Now, the city, by mid-August it says, is forced to once again shut down this major city centre artery and spend more billions to fix the problem.

And that is not to speak of the ensuing traffic chaos that will last at least two months.