Fourth bridge will  carry 130,000 vehicles daily and Metro Line III

The $1.518 billion fourth bridge across the Panama canal will meet its construction deadline says the Chinese consortium handling the project.

The  Panama Fourth Bridge Consortium is made up of China Harbor Engineering Company Ltd. (CHEC) and China Communications Construction Company Ltd. (CCCC)  and said on Wednesday, September 18 that  it will comply with the times stipulated in the work schedule, so that the construction ends in 2023 reports La Prensa

Mario Montemayor, Superintendent of Works in charge of the project, explained at the Capac Expo Habitat Fair that the bridge will allow the passage of at least 130,000 vehicles a day, using a traffic control system that will include automatic incident detection and traffic control cameras.

It will have three lanes in each direction, and two central lines for the monorail of  Metro Line III.