Admittedly, Rua da Oura, located in Albufeira, is several times in the center of various controversies. The street itself has nothing controversial, but what happens there, especially in the summer months, usually generates large waves of indignation. It is that this Algarve street is full of bars and restaurants, and at night, after a lot of alcohol in the blood of those who walk there, police interventions are frequent. However, there is another street in the Algarve that has been able to be even more controversial than Rua da Ora.
We talked about the “Red Street”, which is in Lagoa, Algarve, and whose floor was painted red about seven years ago. At the same height, just like this street, two others, as well as two wides in Lagoa were also painted red. What is certain is that this work generated a lot of controversy among residents and was the target of a report at 2017.
There were reactions of indifference and some with humor
“They should have been doing an athletics track, which I needed to slaughter my belly,” he reacted to Sic José Domingues, with some humor. Although some of the inhabitants did not have adept at this intervention, there were people for those who were “indifferent”.
“For me it doesn’t make me any difference, it was this color, green, yellow, it doesn’t make me a difference,” says Vitória Vieira in the same report issued by SIC. “This was already very old, very old, things have to be done,” he adds.
Also António Vieira, a merchant, was at the time satisfied with the painting of the street, stressing that “this is a modern city, a city to share the space, I am absolutely according to, I am very pleased.”
The intervention resulted from a public consultation
It should be noted that this intervention held in 2017 was decided two years earlier through a public consultation where about 50 people participated.
In addition to the red floor, the intervention renewed all basic infrastructures and ended the tours and disordered parking. The space has a single sense of traffic and the pedestrian part was delimited by flower boxes, algarve chimneys and giant footprints on the floor.
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