BRIEFS. transportation

City streets to get a $30 million makeover

Taxi driver Edgardo López has to put up with Panama City's rapidly deteriorating roads every day of his life.

"It's like driving on a ladder," he said. "Sometimes I go into a hole trying to avoid another hole."

But López and other drivers may be getting some relief as the government is embarking on a $30 million project to repair the city's roads.

The first improvements are slated for Vía Domingo Díaz in Villa Lucre.

"I think it's good that they have started to repair that road because it was becoming impassable," López said.