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It took less than four years build but eliminated a barrier with centuries of history. Its effects began immediately in the southern Tagus and will last for many years. Allowed the construction of apartment blocks where there were estates, massified tourism in Costa da Caparica and Sesimbra, gave new opportunities to the inhabitants of Almada, Seixal, Palmela. But to make Lisbon a city of two banks, the bridge needs new bridges that join what is still separate.
“Urban planners imagined decompression Lisbon not toward the Atlantic but to the south,” notes Fernando Nunes da Silva, professor at the Technical University, specializing in transport. Plans for the Lisbon region, carried out during the Estado Novo, predicted a moderate expansion to the north and west of the capital. For the Costa del Sol, the French urbanist Étienne Groër, who worked in Portugal at the request of Duarte Pacheco, proposed maintaining the historic center of Cascais and a restrained growth, low intensity, the rest of the county: a city-garden. Ditto for Sintra:. A limited village’s historic center and a huge green area in the rest of the county
The South, things would be different. “There would be an urban ring around the Tagus, on the south bank, and a second pole, industrial, in Setúbal. The rest were agricultural or green areas, synthesizes Nunes da Silva. For Montijo was planned to pass the airport. Outside the arc urban the southern shore, the territory would retain the characteristics of the countryside. “the Director plan of the Lisbon Region provided that Almada grow in Pragal area and the southern highway da Caparica was a reservation, for which the architect landscape Ribeiro Teles made a project, “recalls Nunes da Silva
the maps were made but the planners failed population growth in the metropolitan area was overwhelming:.. between 1960 and 1981, the number of residents in Almada more than doubled and Seixal more than tripled. “for 20 years we have had population growth rates in southern margin of 2.5% per year, only values that are observed in Latin America or Africa,” Nunes note Silva. “Therefore, the south bank sneezed, first with the tents and then illegal.”
appeared new urban areas, primitive cities without basic sanitation, with streets paved, designed according to the whim who illegally built their homes without territorial contiguity, without rationality. The privately owned areas for agriculture were preferred for the illegal settlements. Costa da Caparica, first, and then in Amora and in Quinta do Conde, the pace of construction of new sections of the South highway, illegal would-spreading. “The rigidity of the plan as to the zoning [type of use to give the territory] and the lack of a law of soil to allow greater intervention of the government were the main reasons for the plan’s failure,” notes Professor of the Institute technical.
Click here to access unpublished images of the bridge construction, the Municipal Archives of Lisbon has on display at Picoas Plaza until October 27
ALSO THERE OPPORTUNITIES
for John Ferrao, 63, geographer and researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, in addition to chaos urban south, the bridge also brought opportunities. For a population whose employment options were focused on industry, the bridge was a breath of fresh air. “Margin of the South began to look for jobs on the north bank of the tertiary sector,” note.
By allowing access by car, first, by train, then to other areas of the metropolitan area to the north the Tagus, the bridge also allowed greater functional integration. “Today’s suburbs north to south. The interior of the municipality of Cascais and Oeiras is not very different from the south bank of the areas,” notes the geographer. And blurred stereotypes. “During the Estado Novo, the south bank was wrong bank,” notes John Ferrao.
António Fonseca Ferreira directed the Commission for Coordination and Development of Lisbon and Tagus Valley Regional. While presided over this body, there was a plan for integrating the urban centers of the south bank. “The idea was to reclassify the industrial areas unused and also connect the Seixal Barreiro and this town to Montijo, through bridges,” notes the engineer.
The ancient land of Margueira (which was installed Lisnave ), National Steel (Palo Pires) and Quimiparque (Barreiro) have an area of 560 hectares, larger than 360 hectares where they held the Expo 98 and built the Park of Nations, Lisbon. “They live in that area about 550 thousand people, of about 800,000 who live in the municipalities on the south bank,” notes Fonseca Ferreira.
Lusoponte concessionaire of the Tagus crossing, it was proposed to build part of via the Arco Ribeirinho Sul, the link that will allow to overcome the barrier of creeks that create the bays of Seixal and Montijo. “The idea was to book a pathway track for only public road transport and allow the south bank of the underground connection to the Barreiro,” recalls Fonseca Ferreira.
The work is all the more urgent as traffic on the bridge Vasco da Gama is far short of its maximum capacity.
While the first half of last year, according to the Institute for Mobility and Transport, a daily average of 136,000 vehicles crossed the bridge on April 25, Vasco da Gama was used by only 54,000.
It will take new crossings of the Tagus to better order the metropolitan area? Nunes da Silva considers the Chelas-Barreiro corridor (which lost in the 90s, for Montijo-Sacavém option) essential and interesting crossing between Trafaria and Algés, it would be important part of a regional domino that would allow the restoration of the Coast Caparica. For Fonseca Ferreira crossing in Chelas is essential for rail, either because of the TGV or goods. Already John Ferrao awaits arguments that convince. “It takes cost-benefit studies, but with the data I have, I think there are more priority things at this time.”
Sesimbra
Cian to time of Dom Diniz the origins of the fishing village of Sesimbra. It was an important shipbuilding area during the Discoveries, taking advantage of the calm waters of the bay around which the town grew. With the arrival of the motorway Fogueteiro (1966) and Coina (1978), access to the village became faster. They came second homes around the town, hotels and also illegal to the north of the county (Quinta do Conde). Following decolonization, the emblematic Hotel Swordfish was occupied by returnees. At the source of the Bay were encavalitados tourist developments of dubious taste and shaky balance
Jose Carlos Carvalho
Low of Bath
straddles the southern railway line (Barreiro-Vila Real de Santo António), the location of Moita was populated by Alentejo and Algarve who settled there to work in the industrial units of Barreiro and Seixal. Its urbanization dates back to the 40, but the construction of the bridge April 25 contribute, years later, for the densification of this riverside area located in the marshes of the south bank of the Tagus
Jose Carlos Carvalho
Pragal
it was here that implemented the Square toll, a few hundred meters from the river bank. View of Christ the King, the landscape has changed dramatically: the buildings came the Hospital Garcia de Horta, the National Christ the King and the shopping area of Almada Sanctuary, located in the highway fund, already in Feijó parish. This is the route used by thousands of Portuguese who go to the beaches of Costa da Caparica and crossing the river to work on one of its banks. In February 2016, about 150 thousand vehicles daily crossed the toll, indicating a resumption of traffic, affected in recent years by the economic crisis
Jose Carlos Carvalho
Cova da Piedade
it was here that in 1938 opened Arsenal Alfeite and later implemented Lisnave. The facilities of the Navy and the shipyard did significantly increase the population, but it was the 25th of April Bridge that changed her face. Between 1960 and 1981, the population of the parish increased from 24 000 to 65 000 inhabitants. Crossed by National Highway 10, also became an important connecting corridor Seixal areas. It was an independent part of Almada county until 2013, when he joined the union of the parishes of Almada, Cova da Piedade-Pragal and Cacilhas
Jose Carlos Carvalho
Palmela
When the highway came to Palmela and Coina, in 1978, the urban outbreak reached these lands occupied since the neolithic. Fortaleza crucial military during the time of the reconquest, Palmela had a consolidated historic core, which did not prevent the castle surrounding areas were occupied by blocks of social housing. In the municipality is located one of the leading industrial units of the country, Autoeuropa. A successful agriculture (wine production) remained untouched vast areas of the interior of the county, further away from the highway and the railway line Lisbon-Setúbal
Jose Carlos Carvalho
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