The infrastructure minister has guaranteed in recent weeks as more than the works on the Beira Alta railway line were completed, however, the works can still be seen on the ground. Portugal’s infrastructure (IP) has assured SIC that it is all small arrangements and maintenance work on a work that has not actually been in operation.
Still in December, Minister Miguel Pinto Luz said the works of the Beira Alta line would be completed in the first quarter of this year. Then he repeated what he had said three months earlier. To do him again a few days later, in this April.
It spent a week and what you see on the ground is not quite. It does not need to have much railroad knowledge to realize that with the bridges are still visible to security guards used in construction work.
Even more evident are the WORKS IN THE COUNTRY or then a Construction of support walls Next to the upper passage still closed and signaled as works that still resort.
And if examples missed there would be another, a team to do Tests in the luminous signaling.
But the infrastructure minister had secured a few days before, although several months left to reopen the Beira Alta line between Santa Comba Dão And the pampilhosa, what was missing was just the certification phase.
However, one of the companies still walks by the Beira Alta line is precisely the , that signed in 2020 a contract of 70 million euros for modernization of the line between Pampilhosa and Santa Comba Dão beyond the so -called Mealhada agreement.
Minister said works were completed
SIC then asked for clarifications to . In response to the state company guarantees that the minister’s word is correct and the Works ended on March 31.
What is now seen on the ground is but corrections resulting from surrounding work, something usual in public works, and that everything will be finished for next weeks.
Still work on the Beira Alta line
A Portugal infrastructures (IP) It also adds that Small cleaning work of drainage systems and small interventions in slopesarising from heavy rains in recent weeks.
Already in Trezói Tunnelthe works are also completed. However, having detected that the Bastro was dirty with traces of projected concretethere is now cleaning work.
Therefore, any appearance of all these movements with works from the perspective of the Minister of Infrastructure and IP are ‘pure fiction’. To the Works are officially completedwhat you see can be interpreted as Maintenance of a railroad section still It is not known when they will open again to circulation.
