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Promised disclosure of special assessment plan doesn't
happen
Most of
the Cinta Costera landfill done, now come traffic and pedestrian works
by Eric Jackson, mostly
from other media
The landfilling for the Cinta
Costera public road and private hotel and marina expansion project is
nearly complete. The closure and demolition of the sidewalk along the old
seawall on the south side of Avenida Balboa is coming up shortly, and the
bridge and roadway work is already underway.
The government has reneged on its
promise to disclose in December who is going to get precisely how much of
a special tax assessment to pay for the project, which will create four
lanes of traffic over what used to be part of Panama Bay. There have been
several versions of the payment plan, and we were supposed to get a
definitive announcement from the secretive panel appointed to formulate
this bad news. However, December came and went with the ruling Democratic
Revolutionary Party plunging in the polls. The head of
General Noriega's Dignity Battalions goon squad, Minister of Public Works
Benjamín Colamarco, had promised a December announcement and we
didn't get it. We probably won't until after the May 3 elections, unless
those become such a foregone conclusion that any political damage from
such an unpopular announcement would make little difference.
When the traffic lanes on the
landfill are done, then Avenida Balboa will become a four-lane eastbound
street and a nightmare for pedestrians to cross unless and until a series
of pedestrian overpasses are built. The westbound traffic will go over the
landfill.
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