The construction of public works is a slow process. An administration hardly has time to plan, seek financing, build and inaugurate a project, because the process takes more than 4 years. That is why each Government executes the projects that were left ahead by the previous administrations and plans what will come in the future.
The former Minister of Transport, Pedro Castro, warns that the country, from 2018 to 2019, is unlikely to have new public work with loan funds, once they finish executing the funds and projects planned by the two administrations in which he participated (2006-2010 and 2010-2014).
According to Castro, the current Government merely finishes and inaugurated the buildings that were left ready for them (with approved funds, blueprints and designs) and did not search and plan the new loans and projects that should be developed for they leave power.
The works to be inaugurated by President Solís in the coming months belong to a long list of 20 buildings valued at about $ 1,300 million, which have been announced to Costa Ricans for more than 7 years, some dating to the administration of Laura Chinchilla, which approved financing of $340 million from CABEI credit and the loan from the Andean Development Cooperation, which also contracted the $840 million projects of the IDB loan that was partly planned by the Government of Óscar Árias.
If the country is about to see roadworks that were promised 7 to 10 years ago, the logical question is, what is being planned for the coming years? What are the major highway projects of the Solís Rivera administration that will be able to run from 2018?
Castro told the press that the next government will have trouble meeting its promises on public works, since no funding for future projects are ready and they will have little time to do it.