Tuk-Tuks in Lisbon, Portugal.
Prohibition against “excess” should reach 337 streets of seven parishes of the capital. The intention of Carlos Coinas’s local authority is to limit parking sites and the number of licenses to be attributed to this type of vehicles.
The Lisbon Chamber wants to impose the prohibition of ‘tuk tuk’ 337 streets seven parishes of the capital through an order that will come into force on April 1news this Tuesday the newspaper.
The order signed by the Deputy Mayor of Lisbon (CML), Anacorete Correia (CDS-PP), responsible for the Mobility Pelro, aims mainly to the streets in the Historic Center of Lisbon.
The order determines the prohibition of circulation in various roads of the parishes of Avenidas Novas, Arroios, Penha de França, São Vicente, Santo António, Mercy and Santa Maria Maior. It is in the parishes of Santo António, Mercy and Santa Maria Maior that the largest number of streets barred to the ‘tuk tuk’ is concentrated by placing vertical signaling.
In a written note sent to the public, Anacoreto Correia said the Objective is “to protect residents of the city in relation to excesses.”
“It is necessary to order the use of public space and the mobility of the city to better reconcile the preservation of Lisbon and those who inhabit with the activity of tourism and those who visit us,” said the vice president of CML.
Anacorete Correia said that the order with the restriction zones will be, however, autonomous in relation to the new regulation of tourist animation vehicles.
The creation of the new regulation was in July last year and is still being prepared, and its general lines are expected to be known soon, and then enter into public discussion and still be approved at a council meeting and by the Municipal Assembly.
The intention is Limit the ‘tuk tuk’ parking spaces and the number of licenses To assign to this type of vehicles, in order to regulate the activity in the city.
Given the growing complaints of the community about the disorder and conflict generated by these vehicles (especially in highly ‘stuffed’ zones of tourists such as grace, Rossio and the Sun Portas viewpoint), their own stop sites will be redefined – and restricted.
On November 6 last year, the municipality approved the beginning of the elaboration of the project of regulation of vehicles affected to non -heavy tourist animation, including ‘Tuk Tuk’.
The representative association of the sector foresees controversy, since, it tells the public, doubts the legality of the measure.
