TSF Forum, the Socialist who succeeded Antonio Costa in the capital of the camera ensures that you have no “taboo” on the subject matter. But it says now is time to focus on managing and Lisbon.
Fernando Medina came to the Forum, “accountability” on the first year ahead of the Lisbon municipality. A year full of “challenges”, in which also wants to focus before thinking about 2017 local.
In view of the insistence of the TSF, the mayor of the capital stressed that “there is still one year” to the elections, the question is not “taboo” and a decision will be made “in due time”. Still, “until the end of the year,” it must be clarified.
cheaper transport and more parking
In response to questions from the TSF and listeners, Fernando Medina completed the defense, even before made, reduction in prices of tickets and passes for public transport.
“I consider it important that in particular for older people and young people, prices they can be decreased. ” The mayor believes that the current situation “very limited people’s mobility” and “is not beneficial to the sustainability of companies.”
About the intention to transfer the transport management for the camera, the president of City Hall promises “news” by the end of June and says “at the end of the year, the process is complete.”
and to facilitate the entry into Lisbon who comes from neighboring municipalities, Fernando Medina announces a network of car parks near some of the transport interfaces.
“One will be near the metro station of Pontinha”, but there are already other defined locations such as Lumiar or Santa Clara. The goal is to “deter” the entry of cars in Lisbon, causing people to leave the car in these peripheral parks, the “symbolic” prices and enter the city using the metro or the Carris buses.
Lisbon bike from one end to another
this is the objective of the project that is being studied. Fernando Medina shows that the idea is to create a “network of cycling mobility, similar to a public transport network.”
The mayor believes that today, “the bike is much more than half of leisure “, so this new network should cover” the whole city, with information and signs “that allow cyclists to know they can go to any point of the city by bike and” bike paths use “.
Medina says that currently exist in Lisbon 40 kilometers of cycle paths and the project under study is considered “the most ambitious, but also the most important” of his term.
“Plan B” the People’s Fair
Failed to full disposal of Entrecampos land, the municipality examines another solution. If the sale entirely not guarantee “the defense of the municipal heritage, we can make a detailed plan and within that plan, make a sale for parts of that block.”
Still, Fernando Medina makes a point of stress that the land on which stood the Fair People will not be sold at any cost and the priority is to ensure that the assets are not depreciated.
in the Second Ring Road, the works begin in the summer, they can last up to 10 months but they will be done at night, and the mayor promises that all tracks will be operating normally during the day.
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