The Earth Party – MPT/Algarve demanded this week that the Government regionalize Via do Infante, accusing the Passos Coelho executive of “cowardice and lack of imagination” for not having maintained the exemptions on the A22 for residents.
“It is incomprehensible that the Government, on the one hand, insists with such willingness on the maintenance of the tolls, and on the other hand, does not act in favor of the conclusion of the works on the EN125. It is intolerable the cowardice with which the government prefers to assume itself as the 'best man' of Brussels in order to be able to resign from the responsibility of all the unpopular decisions it takes”, said the MPT/Algarve, in a statement.
The solution that it proposes, "as a starting point" is the "establishment of a protocol with the Algarve's municipalities that, through joint management of this very important regional infrastructure, will even allow the profitability of Via do Infante in tourist and commercial advertising, allowing for example to suppress the current costs of portatens for individuals and companies indirectly through various municipal deductions according to each municipality».
«In conclusion, the Partido da Terra – MPT /Algarve suggests that if the government of Lisbon assumes itself as incapable of solving the issue of mobility in the Algarve, that it at least allow others to intervene in its place in order to transform the Via do Infant in a regional and national economic asset», considered the Earth Party.
Recalling "the seriousness of the social and economic consequences for the country" of the introduction of tolls in Via do Infante, the MPT asks the Government to "lose the merely accounting attitude subservient to external interests and assume in its place an economic strategy posture with a view to to alleviate difficulties and reactivate economic engines'.
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