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Volume 15, Number 2
January 29, 2009

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Also in this section:
Martinelli and Varela join forces
Bernal campaign picks up steam
Traffic solution?
Intra-PRD revolt against Torrijos bus plan
Details of legislative crush start to sort out
Catholic Church loses political influence
Panama News Briefs



The Torrijos solution to Panama City traffic jams

What you see is not the urban gridlock problem that President Torrijos is trying to solve. It's the solution that he has ordered.

This is a photo taken at about three in the afternoon on the second day of a rearrangement of banking district street directions, near the Executive Hotel.

It's unfair, however, to say that the move hasn't worked. The guy in the Transito vest, after all, gets a spot on the public payroll to stand around watching the traffic jam and occasionally issue a traffic ticket or blow his whistle.

The traffic nightmares that have gripped the metro area and parts of the rest of the country have been an important factor in the ruling Democratic Revolutionary Party's recent meltdown in public opinion polls.

Photo by Eric Jackson

Also in this section:
Martinelli and Varela join forces
Bernal campaign picks up steam
Traffic solution?
Intra-PRD revolt against Torrijos bus plan
Details of legislative crush start to sort out
Catholic Church loses political influence
Panama News Briefs

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