The new Minister of Public Works has acknowledged decades of delays in maintaining the country’s bridges, and has announced a tender for repairs and maintenance.

Minister Castro enlisted the help of the National Laboratory of Materials and Structural Models of the University of Costa Rica (LANAMME), to ensure the technical validity of the tender to be convened for the repair of bridges on roads which are vital to the country.

Nacion.com reports that “a study by the Japanese Cooperation said in 2007 that ‘most of the 1330 national road bridges are suffering from severe damage caused by earthquakes, rivers, an increase in the volume of traffic, and poor maintenance.”

Source: Nacion.com