The Left Block wants the trains to stop again in São Marcos da Serra and presented a Draft Resolution to the Assembly of the Republic that recommends the Government to intercede with the CP so that there are «two stops a day, in each direction, in this location ».
Since 2011, the population of this parish in the municipality of Silves have been watching the trains pass, without stopping, a situation that blockers want to see changed. "This happened following the implementation, by CP, of a new model of exploration of the southern line, which included new timetables that suppressed several trains, and the withdrawal of stops, for passenger boarding and disembarkation, at the stations of São Marcos da Serra, Messines and Tunes”, fits BE, which argues that the measure is “extremely harmful to the population of São Marcos da Serra, and the surrounding communities”.
This decision mainly affected the population of São Marcos da Serra, defend the deputies of the Left Bloc, which “is limited in terms of the offer of collective passenger transport, as it is reduced to insufficient road transport, which provides only two departures from the locality, one in the morning and the other in the early afternoon».
«Thus, the population of São Marcos da Serra, as well as other parishes in the interior of the Algarve and lower Alentejo, are abandoned and heavily dependent on their own transport, thus contributing to the isolation and depopulation of the places, which they are left to themselves, in an environment with great economic needs and without the support of the most basic social services, such as the provision of health care: the closest hospital is located more than half a hundred kilometers away», they add.
BE recalls that the population has been trying to reverse the situation, through petitions and demonstrations, with the last protest, held on February 4, bringing together "more than 300 people at the São Marcos da Serra Railway Station".
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