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Former Secretary of State for Transport, Frederico Francisco, hopes that by 2030 there will be some kind of high speed. However, it warns that it is necessary to accelerate the process of acquiring “circulating material”.
In an interview with, in this Sunday’s edition, the former Secretary of State for Transport, Frederico Franciscowarned of the risk of opening the first section of high speed and Portugal there are no trains.
“There are reasons for concern, in particular how the process of high speed is being conducted (…) probably the minister estimates that the delays in the construction of the line will be so large that it can expect a little more to buy the trains,” said the current PS deputy.
“Looking at the deadlines for supplying circulating material, if the contest is released now and if all goes well, already There is a risk of opening the first section of the high speed line and not being here“He admitted.
Frederico Francisco maintains, yet, the hope that in 2030 there will be “there will be some kind of high speed (…) in a limited way, but”.
As for the national railway plan by 2050, which will cost the country a billion euros of investment per year, the socialist believes in the country’s ability to execute him: “If there is sufficient political force for the sectorial protection. In the last ten years we have done half of this path.”
“We start from an investment level that was less than 100 million euros per year in 2015 to 2023 already exceeding 500 million euros. It is obvious that now duplicate is not the same as reaching 500 million euros, but if there is the political force corresponding to what is the statements of the minister himself, I believe it is possible,” he said.
However, the deputy warned that it is not enough to have the money; You also need to have execution capacity“Delays in the works show great difficulties on the part of the IP in executing a large number of high amounts of high amounts. It is obvious that the teams I need to execute an investment of a billion per year are not the same as I need for 300 million. Teams have to be reinforced“.
Pedro Nuno Santos’s former advisor at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing accused Minister Miguel Pinto Luz of creating excessive expectations In places such as Trás-os-Montes or Viseu: “Walking through the country to promise studies creates expectations in people and makes them later pressure.”
About Metrobuses fashion, Frederico Francisco pointed out the problem of being called “Metrobus” Buses that do not always circulate in dedicated road.
“The risk is even risking the perception that people have about these systems. At the berth, people who point to Metrobus as just a bus, they start to be right, ”he considered, in the interview with the public, where he spoke of specific cases and problems of the railroad in various parts of the country, which also addresses in his book.
