The government proposed as a solution to mitigate traffic on the internal waistway (VCI), in Porto, the placement of 6 gantries to its entrance to inhibit heavy circulation – second publication on Instagram in the meantime.
This Thursday, the Ministry of Infrastructures published on Instagram a photograph where 6 portica at the entrance of VCI in Porto to deflect heavy vehicles.
In the photograph was visible a diaper of a presentation made by the minister Miguel Pinto Luz To the mayors of the Porto Metropolitan Area (AMP) at the meeting on the subject, which took place at the headquarters of AMP ,.
Only, however, Lusa launched a series of questions and The publication was deleted.
The 6 proposed portica
In the ‘slide’, with the title “proposed solution”, it implies the installation of “six gantries on the VCI access roads”, of which two to the south – in the “bridge of Arrábida and bridge Fashion” -; and four to the north:“[Autoestrada] A28, En13 [Estrada Nacional 13], A3 e A43“.
According to the presentation map, the north gantries would be located at these roads still before exits to the circumstance roadthat is, still outside the limits of the municipality of Porto.
It was also possible to read that it is suggested, regarding VCI, the “application [de uma] taxa [de] crossing in certain periods + exemption [de] toll [na] Crepe [Circular Regional Exterior do Porto, também denominada A41] During the same period ”.
About, the minister gave a clue after the meeting. Miguel Pinto Luz said Crep (A41) would be tendentially free for heavynamely goods, to try to divert and reduce traffic from the internal waistway (VCI) in Porto.
“The government will stress efforts to, within four or five monthsimplement a reduction in toll rates at CREP, tendentially free for all heavy vehicles, ”Pinto Luz told reporters.
However, the question of the portals was not addressed by the minister.
However, the president of AMP Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues admittedto the installation of VCI tolls to apply to trucks or a prohibition of circulation at the time, four hours in the morning and another four in the afternoon.
Ministry replied that “it is early”
In response to Lusa, the ministry replied that “right now” is “early define any proposal as definitive“.
“As mentioned after the meeting, a working group will be created, coordinated by the Secretary of State for Infrastructure and who will have representatives of IMT and infrastructure of Portugal, to evaluate several proposals presented by the tutelage and by the municipalities themselves to improve the circulation of VCI,” said official source of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing.
On Thursday, Pinto Luz had told reporters that the working group would also “start defining all mitigating measures” that can be taken to “Dissuading traffic inside the VCI and inside the city of Porto”.
The minister made it clear, however, that currently the “not yet consensual or closed” measures, giving six months to the “equal” working group to make agreed decisions between the ministry and the municipalities.
Pinto Luz estimates that the changes “may reduce traffic from 16% to 20% of heavy vehicles at VCI ”, also speaking“ in the distress of traffic at VCI for some periods of the day ”, something that will be implemented in the coming months”.
