The Main Access Road to Tamarindo Finally Received Some TLC Thanks in Part to Residents’ Donations.

With their increasingly common ‘do it yourself’ attitude, the residents and business owners of Tamarindo, Guanacaste raised enough money to make necessary road repairs in the region a reality. The principle access road to Tamarindo is finally in the process of being reconstructed and paved thanks to an investment of $238,000, 65% of which came from local business owners and the rest from the Municipality of Santa Cruz.

The company Asfaltos Alajuela began the work in January of this year after winning the contract in a contest held by the municipality. They spent three months repairing the state of the road, paving it and constructing the appropriate drainage measures to prevent flooding.

This particular section of road is located on first part of the access road to Tamarindo and is 300 meters log and 14 meters wide and should be completed at the end of next month. It suffered from rapid deterioration due to the large amount of visitors to the area as well as heavy trucks loaded with construction equipment to support the real estate boom. According to the Municipality, 176 construction permits were authorized in 2007 alone in the district.

The town is also waiting for the construction of a second access road in the area of Los Jobos, which would be 4.3 kilometers in length and ease the traffic flow in and out of the city. However, the plans for the road have been significantly delayed as the municipality tries to expropriate land and a court case brought up by a resident who claims that the road does not respect the 15 meter distance buffer zone around a local creek.

This new road as well as the road reparations promise to make driving in Costa Rica a little less of a hassle for anyone visiting Tamarindo.

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Filed under: Costa Rica News on May 8th, 2008