CFP against “municipalization” of the Rails – Diário de Notícias – Lisbon

THE PCP/Lisbon expressed today against “municipalization” of the Rails, and criticized the city of Lisbon for not having consulted the councillors of the opposition before signing with the Government a memorandum that transfers the carrier to the local authority.

in A note today disclosed, the Direction of the Organization of the City of Lisbon, the PCP considered it “unacceptable that councillors and the deputies to the municipal have had knowledge of this memorandum only for the invitation to the signing ceremony”.

THE PCP/Lisbon further considered “inadmissible” the signing of the memorandum “, and there is no consideration and decision of the municipal organs, addressing it for ratification later” in the Chamber and the Municipal Assembly of Lisbon.

For the Portuguese Communist Party, “it is the Government that is responsible for guaranteeing a Rails public, quality, to the service of the workers and of the population of the city and region of Lisbon” and stressed that the “municipalization” has been the first step for the concession of transport to the private.

For the communists, the Rails must remain in the sphere of the State business sector, getting through the Budget of the State the “necessary resources to the maintenance of a firm that has been providing a quality service to the clients”, because “lack to the city council a structure, particularly financial, so that you can be provided a service to the users with speed, security, and social cost”.

“The operating costs are, by itself, an amount of funding unaffordable by any municipality,” said the CFP.

on the other hand, argued that the transport service provided by the Rails goes beyond the boundaries of the Municipality of Lisbon, so that can’t be managed taking into account only the interests of capital, forgetting all those working in, or moving to Lisbon, have out-of-town the your point of origin or destination”.

THE PCP/Lisbon argued that “it is from the responsibility of the central State administration that will have to be found a solution that involves the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon and the municipalities that compose it”.

The Government and the Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (CML) today signed a memorandum of the passage of the management of the road Rails for the local authority, from 01 January 2017.

the chairman of The CML, Fernando Medina, has announced a reinforcement of 250 new buses over the next three years to the city, at an investment of 60 million euros, a decrease of 40% of the emissions of pollutants, the hiring of 220 drivers and the creation of 21 new lines.