Angel Valdes | March 8, 2023
The Minister of the Ministry of Public Works (MOP), Rafael Sabonge, in a tour of the Panama West area, told the media that the expansion of lanes that is being carried out in the district of They root .
“This project is 62-63% complete, we are now working with much more momentum because we have already overcome the earthmoving phase that took more time, now we are paving and we are building structures, we should achieve a substantial completion of the project in the month of September, which is what we are looking for, that at least the main road, the main road of the project, will remain open to improve the road and connectivity of this entire west sector as of September, perhaps there will be structures such as bridges, caissons or tunnels that are not finished by that date, but what we aspire to together with the contractor is to complete it and put it into operation in the month of September,” said Sabonge.
Regarding the patching programs in different parts of the capital city, Sabonge stressed that they are working hard on the streets «We have been patching all over Panama City, but we have started with force the rehabilitation of the streets of the capital, in Right now we are working on Justo Arosemena, on Cuba avenue, on Peru avenue and we are already entering Central avenue, we are going to finish the expansion of the third lane from the Forest to the San Miguelito Bridge, we have been working hard on that , we are going to enter the Ancón area and soon we will be completely rehabilitating the San Miguelito Bridge and we will do it with a new method in Panama that is with precast slabs to avoid the complete closure of the bridge and we will be starting up in about a month.”
