Skyline, Panama City, Panama (photo)

Cinta Costera Pacifica, Ocean Coastal Beltway, Bahia de Panama linear park seawall skyline. Coastal Beltway (Cinta Costera), Panama City. Panama City is one city in Central America where congestion has reached crisis point. The city is going through an unprecedented period of stability and investment and there are ample public funds for infrastructure improvement projects. One of the newest road improvement projects is the Coastal Beltway or Cinta Costera project. This project intends to decongest the road network of Panama City by providing a bypass route past the city. The Avenida Balboa currently accepts the brunt of this traffic with 72,000 vehicles per day passing along it. The new Coastal Beltway relieves this congestion and also as part of the project provides around 25ha of park area for the use of residents of this area of the city.The tallest completed building in Panama City is not the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower, which stands 264 m (866 ft) tall, but the Point as evidenced by Panama's Aeronautica Civil third-party measurement records. For several years, Panama City's skyline remained largely unchanged, with only four buildings exceeding 150 m (492 feet). Beginning in the early 2000s, the city experienced a large construction boom, with new buildings rising up all over the city. The boom continues today, with over 150 highrises under construction and several supertall buildings planned for construction. In addition to growing out, Panama City grew up, with two new tallest buildings since 2005. All super tall projects were cancelled (Ice Tower, Palacio de la Bahía, and Torre Generali) or are on hold (Faros de Panamá, Torre Central). Photographed in 2014