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Recovering existing mobility assets in San José (Costa Rica)

Abstract:

Starting from a reflection on Latin America cities that have promoted innovative public transport policies, the article focuses on the case of San José in Costa Rica. By questioning a governmental proposal for building a new elevated Light Rapid Transit line, the text presents alternative solutions for the recovery of an underused interurban railway, its doubling and integration into the metropolitan context of San José. These solutions consider both recurrent technical features of the infrastructure and its morpho-functional relationships with the crossed urban settlement, with the aim to identify the thickness of the project, and to provide design solutions for the upgrading of the service and the integration of the rail infrastructure into the context.