Infrastructure In Costa Rica

The infrastructure in Costa Rica today is almost no better than when it  rolled out the foreign retiree welcome mat all those years ago.  Infrastructure has not met economic growth numbers. Ineffective and  insufficient maintenance and investment efforts are the main offenders. 

 Costa Rica infrastructure projects  

such as train systems, airports,  

highways, ports, bridges, and  

water treatment systems. 

 The government of Costa Rica uses the  Public Works Concession Lae for the  development of large infrastructure projects. These projects include: roads, highways,  bridges, airport modernization, port  improvement, rehabilitation of the railroad  system, and water-wastewater systems, among other projects. The  projects are offered to private local and foreign companies and consortiums  through a public bidding process under the BOT (build-operate-transfer)  concession scheme, as stipulated in the Public Works Concession Law. 

 A goal of the Rodrigo  Chaves Robles (2022- present) has been to revise  the concession law to correct  its loopholes in which companies can overcharge  the Costa Rican government  for design, construction, and  operation of different  projects.

 In late 2017 the  Costa Rican government  issued a new regulation that  allows Public- Private Alliances. This is expected to be widely supported,  increasing investment in different infrastructure projects. 

Overall, the main  traffic and transport  routes are well  developed and in  comparatively good  condition. In terms of  the length of its rail  network, Costa Rica  ranks 103rd in the  world with 0.05  meters per inhabitant.  

In total, the rail  network is 278  kilometres long.