Truckers block airport and Corredor Sur
MASSIVE traffic jams developed on the Corredor Sur on Tuesday morning August 11 as protesting truck drivers blocked roads opposite the Plaza Las Americas in Tocumen causing many passengers to miss their early morning flights and forcing Metro buses to seek alternate routes to Pacora and Chepo..
Access to , Las Mañanitas and Tocumen International Airport and surrounding areas was blocked causing many passengers to miss their early morning flightsTruckers said that they are demanding the resumption of construction projects that are currently suspended and the regulation of the prices of tow trucks, among other issues
.Transit Authority Deputy Director Rubén Chávez said that the government would be open to meeting with the truckers and called on them to end the protest.
He said the issue can be solved through dialogue
AT 7:15 a.m., the protesterspartially reopened the roads, specifically the exit of the corredor.
WATER CRY
There was another early waring protest that closed a road in Nuevo Chorrillo, Arraijan, where. residents there are calling for improvements in the supply of drinking water, reports La Prensa
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