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The road to Miguel de La Borda Never
mind the hole in the street --- the Christmas decorations are up  A grave danger if you're seriously ill or injured on the Costa Abajo photos by Eric Jackson It's not a new problem, but with the canal
getting busier it's a more frequent one. The only way to get from that
part of Colon province west of the canal --- the Costa Abajo --- to the
nearest hospital is by way of the swing bridges at the Gatun locks.
Those, of course, are pulled back when a ship is passing through.
The people at the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) try to ameliorate the problem. After this ship went by the next vessel was briefly delayed to allow the ambulance shown above --- but not the rest of the cars that were waiting in line --- to cross the locks. Still, it was a 20-minute delay with someone in the back of the ambulance en route to the hospital. Add a second set of locks and the problem gets more than doubly worse. The ACP offered a ferry service, which Costa Abajo residents reject for a variety of reasons. During the canal expansion campaign the ACP made a study of a bridge or tunnel across the Atlantic entrances to the expanded canal part of the proposal, and then in their TV ads promised that there would be such a crossing. However, the money for this project is not in the canal expansion cost estimate prepared for the ACP by the Boston Big Dig's infamous Parsons Brinckerhoff. 
Also in this section:
The road to Miguel de La Borda Never
mind the hole in the street --- the Christmas decorations are up The
deadly side of a quotidian annoyance
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