Costa Rica's Train Route Expands

According to the Costa Rica Railroad Institure, Costa Rica's Heredia-San Jose train will make six daily trips to and from San Pedro, located east of San Jose, beginning this week.

The train will continue east from the Estación del Atlántico – its current final stop near San Jose's Parque Nacional – to the University of Costa Rica (UCR) and Latina University (ULatina).

The cost from Heredia, north of San Jose, to San Pedro, will be c350 ($0.64), although the Public Services Regulatory Authority likely will adjust the price after service begins, according to INCOFER.

Each morning, two trains will run from Heredia to San Pedro and one from San Pedro to Heredia.

The first train will leave from ULatina at 6:15 a.m. and arrive in downtown Heredia at 7:00 a.m.

From downtown Heredia, trains will leave for ULatina at 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. and arrive at the university at 7:10 and 8:10 a.m.

The afternoon two trains will leave from the ULatina, bound for Heredia, at 4:15 and 6:15 p.m. These trips will take 45 minutes.

There will be one evening journey from Heredia to the ULatina, leaving at 5:30 p.m. and reaching the university at 6:10 p.m.

INCOFER will also begin train service from the Estación del Pacífico – eight blocks south of Parque Central, near the Women's Hospital –to the Estación Atlántico, which will continue to Heredia. The train will leave the Estación del Pacífico at 5:30 p.m. and arrive in Heredia at 6:30 p.m.

Service on the new routes will run from Monday through Friday. INCOFER said it will evaluate the possibility of more frequent service after a few weeks time.