One of the Metrobus stations under construction at Avenida da Boavista, Porto
Candidate for Mayor of Porto will deliver a precautionary action to wage the works related to the second phase of the project.
The candidate for the Porto Chamber Pedro Duarte (PSD/CDS-PP/IL) will deliver, in the coming days, a precautionary to prevent that continue the works relative to Second phase of Metrobusrevealed today.
“We are not just defending trees or a bike lane. We are defending a more sustainable, more human and more balanced city model. This is a COMBATE FOR THE FUTURE OF PORTO”The coalition candidate defended Porto we are us in a statement sent to the newsrooms.
Source of the application clarified to Lusa that the document must be delivered in court in the coming days and that the announcement today “part of a place of indignation with the Starting the works and destroying trees that marked the day on Avenida da Boavista ”.
The works of the second phase of the Porto Metrobus (Boavista – Anémona) started earlier this week, in the segment until the High School Garcia de Orta.
According to what the carrier told Lusa at the date of advertising of the second phase, “designers are developing an alternative solution for the section between Garcia de Orta and Castelo do Cheese stations, in strict compliance with the chamber.”
The alternative solution proposed by the Porto Chamber for the second phase of Metrobus saves the direct slaughter of 86 treesbut it can Harm the travel time Announced, according to data from Metro do Porto provided to Lusa.
According to data sent by a source of the port of Porto after issues of Lusa, in the solution initially designed for the second phase of Metrobus (from the Marechal Gomes da Costa Avenue zone to the anemona), from an initial balance of 267 trees, they passed to 305 at the end, but with the alternative solution proposed by the Porto Chamber, the final balance would rise to 391 trees.
According to Metro do Porto, the bill was reviewed after a request from the Porto Chamber on April 1 and, on May 22, the local PSD/CDS-PP/IL Pedro Duarte candidate released a petition that intended to maintain the central bike path and avoid the slaughter of trees, something with which the current mayor, Rui Moreira, said.
Last Saturday, the head of the PSD/CDS-PP/IL coalition list also organized a manifestation Protest that brought together dozens of people, next to the Garcia de Orta High School, on Avenida da Boavista, in Porto, against the start of the works of the second phase of this project.
Metrobus is expected to connect the Music House to Praça do Empire (in 12 minutes) and the anémona (in 17), and the vehicles of the service will be buses visually similar to those of the conventional meter, built by 29.5 million euros, including the food infrastructure.
The vehicles have arrived and the work of the first phase is completed, but the service is not yet in operation, being the Channel of Avenida da Boavista currently used by soft modes of mobility, such as bicycles and trotistes.
On July 14, the mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira, said he would not “waste more time” with Metrobus and leave this subject to the next executive.
By the government, the Minister of Infrastructures, Miguel Pinto Luz, said it is necessary to “make an evaluation” and “stop”, but “not stop too much, because this is to perform, and at the right time make a final decision” about the operation of the first phase.
They compete for the Porto Manuel Pizarro Chamber (PS), Diana Ferreira (CDU-PCP/PEV Coalition), Nuno Cardoso (Porto First-NC/PPM Coalition), Pedro Duarte (PSD/CDS-PP/IL Coalition), Sérgio Aires (BE), the current vice president Filipe Araújo (do Porto-Independent), Guilherme Alexandre Jorge (Volt) (Free), Miguel Corte-Real (arrives), Frederico Duarte Carvalho (DNA), Maria Amelia Costa (PTP) and Luís Tinoco Azevedo (PLS).
The current executive consists of a majority of six elected from Rui Moreira’s movement and an independent councilwoman, the remaining two PS, two PSD, one from CDU and one from the BE.
The municipal elections are held on October 12.
