Alexandra Leitão, PS candidate for the Lisbon Chamber
PS candidate estimates that the measure costs the House 30 million euros per year. Before prices, you should think of the offer.
Alexandra Leitão will propose that all people living in Lisboa (in the county) are entitled to free public transport.
This offer is already free for young people up to 23 and for people who are over 65. But the PS candidate for the presidency of the Lisbon City Council wants the pass municipal navigator Free for all – This title allows you to circulate only inside a county.
The idea is to foster a “more sustainable mobility,” Alexandra Leitão told the radio. It is a measure of “Social Justice”, adds.
The PS candidate recalled that the transport sector is responsible for “a quarter of all total greenhouse gas emissions, and the private car weighs more than half in these emissions.”
Alexandra Leitão provides that this measure has an impact of about 30 million euros per year to the Lisbon City Council – which would pay compensation to Carris, CP, Lisbon and Fertagus.
The candidate to be successor of Carlos Coladas also advocates the creation of More stops bus And “with more comfort” – because some of the stops “don’t even fully protect those who wait for the bus.”
One should also bet on a “better fleet and with more RECOVERY OF THE OFFER and reliability of the service, which also passes, for example, by more bus corridors. ”
And the rest?
This last point is precisely the center of the question. And not the price, according to the transport infrastructure specialist, Carlos Oliveira Cruz.
Also on the radio, Carlos admitted that Alexandra Leitão made “a right diagnosis, but with proposals and wrong solutions.”
Why The main obstacle to the use of public transport “It’s not the price – it’s in fact availability, a regularity and speed of the public transport system ”.
The investigator of the Instituto Superior Technical (IST) recalled that the monthly fee – 30 euros – It should not be a major obstacle “because in the city of Lisbon the average performance, per capita, is one of the highest in the country.”
The largest complaint are about lack of information and failures in time, Lack of regularity.
“This is where the measures should be focused: how we can make the transport system faster, more effective and more regular. It is preferable to increase supply”He summed up.
