Some of you may remember my post on the old "this week in Bahia" site about the new mall going up in the Pituba area, near Iguatemí. Well, a little over a year later, here it is, almost finished!
It boasts to be the biggest mall in South America. Iguatemí had this title for some time as well. It's supposed to be the huge competition "shopping" to Iguatemí, being built literally around the corner and within site of our beloved gi-ganti-mall (we call this kind of thing a "shopping" instead of a mall), in which I have gotten lost more than once, and the giant church across the street from it (also lovingly know as "God Shopping"). Nothing in particular has been done to deal so much with the traffic flow around this area, except to add this new overpass, which I believe will lead directly to the mall and be horribley congested most of the time.
For anyone who has ever been here, you know that the area in front of Iguatemí is not the best place to be in a car, and you are likely to sit there for a minimum of of 15 minutes during a heavier than normal traffic time. Access to this exclusive road will come from that same vein of traffic, since we never make more than one route to each destination. Unfortunately, adding a lane is not an option, since all these roads are at least 5 lanes wide already. And we say Brasil's economy is suffering - yet we still have money to spend in the giant shoppings!
It boasts to be the biggest mall in South America. Iguatemí had this title for some time as well. It's supposed to be the huge competition "shopping" to Iguatemí, being built literally around the corner and within site of our beloved gi-ganti-mall (we call this kind of thing a "shopping" instead of a mall), in which I have gotten lost more than once, and the giant church across the street from it (also lovingly know as "God Shopping"). Nothing in particular has been done to deal so much with the traffic flow around this area, except to add this new overpass, which I believe will lead directly to the mall and be horribley congested most of the time. 
For anyone who has ever been here, you know that the area in front of Iguatemí is not the best place to be in a car, and you are likely to sit there for a minimum of of 15 minutes during a heavier than normal traffic time. Access to this exclusive road will come from that same vein of traffic, since we never make more than one route to each destination. Unfortunately, adding a lane is not an option, since all these roads are at least 5 lanes wide already. And we say Brasil's economy is suffering - yet we still have money to spend in the giant shoppings!
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