January 14, 2019. Dams, stress, road chaos, long hours in your car before getting to work and back home, seem to have a solution.
According to a recent study, these problems may soon come to an end with the approval of one of the four rail initiatives: the electric train, monorail, subway metro or tramway.
These four initiatives can work as long as there is synergy with the public bus transportation system through sectorization and trunking, which seek to reduce travel time and relocate the existing terminals and distribute them around San José instead of downtown and create strategic points where routes merge and people transfer from one bus leaving their canton to another that would take them downtown.
In Costa Rica, 50% of the workers work in a different canton from their place of residence. This means that half of the workers in the GAM have to travel to another canton every morning to go to their work center, and must return at the end of the day.
For Jaime García, CLACDS/INCAE researcher and Director of the "San José, ¿Cómo Vamos?" initiative, the electric train would be a good solution, first because the studies are already advanced and because it covers more areas, and in terms of scalability and expansion, it proposes an open, scalable system with multi-sector participation.
Garcia also adds that while this is a good solution, an integrated urban transportation system should also be sought, not only with buses but with all other means of transportation.
These are some of the characteristics of the initiatives. For more information click on the following link
