Coins says he did what he didn’t do; And that didn’t do what you did

Carris management is not in the House but “I was the one who increased the investment” – and after all there was no increase at all.

On the day of tragedy, Carlos Coins It was visibly (and understanding) disturbed.

“It is a tragic day for our city. It’s a very hard day for all of us,” were the first words of the mayor of Lisbon, who in this first reaction did not lengthen about responsibilities.

“It’s very serious. Obviously it shouldn’t have happened. We will be here to answer all the questions here,” the mayor continued.

But the issue of political responsibility, the “theater” of usual, appeared in the following days has surrounded Carlos Coins – which has also contributed to these exchanges of accusations and innuendo.

And it has not been done very well in this context.

In the first one he gave after the disaster, Carlos Coins said that the Lisbon City Council does not generate Carristransport company responsible for the elevator. The House is a shareholder of Carris but “does not generate the company; it has a strategy for the mobility of the city and provides resources to the company.”

But in the same conversation at, he said: “The company’s budget increased 30% in my term. Carris invested 60% more in new equipment in my term. Maintenance increased by 30%.”

That is, it removes the Lisbon Chamber from Carris Management but announces “I increased the maintenance”reacts Alexandra Machado, on the radio, citing words of the mayor in another interview, in.

It wasn’t supposed to do but do it. But there are other more important incongruities.

Precisely about the House being a shareholder of Carris, but not managing: the Chamber Lisbon Municipal, After all, you can interfere with management Company – As a shareholder, approves or disapproves of budgets, activity plans and reports and accounts, stresses the.

In addition, the Total Costs in Maintenance of the rails of Carris (and the elevator of Santa Justa and the tram) did not increase; They went down 3% Since the year – 2021 – that Carlos Coins took office while mayor of Lisbon. Expenses to maintain infrastructures associated with electric mode fell 18%. What increased were the general maintenance costs, which includes buses.

Here, it announces that it did but did not – in the specific case of that elevator.

Adds that, contrary to what coins announced, the maintenance spending on the carris did not increase because more users of the lifts. At least, not at the same pace.

And there is still a lot of commented reference to the dismissal of in 2001, after the drop of the bridge in Entre-os-Rios. Also, coins was misleading.

In the middle, and according to PS and free, the president abandoned the meeting From the Lisbon City Council, on Monday, before any question to Pedro Bogas, chairman of the Carris Board of Directors. No listening to Bogas, he left before.