Why Costa Rica Has No Desire to Improve Public Transportation

Costa Rica News – The slow movement towards an efficient public transport system in Costa Rica, can be explained to some extent by the fact that a large part of government revenue, is related to vehicle ownership.
Just last year, the Ministry of Finance (Ministerio de Hacienda) took in some ¢255 billion colones in duties on the import of a record number of 73,000 vehicles.
Add to the import tax, the tax collected on gasoline sales, some ¢600 billion colones, all adding to million of reasons to keeping public transport in the slow lane.
Critics point out that the appointment of Liza Castillo last week as deputy minister of transport clearly shows the government is in no hurry to implement an agile, modern and secure system of public transport,

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