Is there good bus service in the Panama City, Panama suburb of Fort Clayton / Clayton?
Lourdes Townshend
Metropolitan public transportation in Panamá is experiencing a great change lately.
In early years, the city of Panamá had a train that went along "Casco Viejo", which was the only city in those times, and our grandparents used that train for transportation, along with horse carriages. Bella Vista was the first neighborhood when the city of Panamá began her territorial extension.
Around 1960 there...
Metropolitan public transportation in Panamá is experiencing a great change lately.
In early years, the city of Panamá had a train that went along "Casco Viejo", which was the only city in those times, and our grandparents used that train for transportation, along with horse carriages. Bella Vista was the first neighborhood when the city of Panamá began her territorial extension.
Around 1960 there used to be what Panamanians called "chivas", which were small buses going from neighborhood to neighborhood, with two benches at each side. Then, the big school buses replaced them, and were very picturesque, all painted in colors. More recently, those old buses have been taken out of circulation, and about 2 years ago were replaced by modern buses which implementation is still in process, while the new metro is being built.
And a new era for transportation is arisen.... a modern "metro" , that would be the first one in Central América, it is about to start in the month of March, changing the face of this modern and cosmopolitan city. The Metro is designed to continue to Arraiján in the future, giving their thousands of residents relief, enabling them to travel to the city of Panamá on a daily and comfortable basis.
Clayton, kind of an isolated neighborhood of the city of Panamá, still lacks bus routing within its boarders, but buses go by the main road, around the Panamá Canal, just very few blocks away.
Posted February 8, 2014