And it says that the airport in Santarém “it's not far”: distance should be measured in time and ease of access, not kilometers.
Teresa Almeida, training architect, directs the Lisbon and Tagus Valley Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDR-LVT), precisely the richest region of the country. or less poor. Understands that this decentralization and administrative reform, with the transfer of competences to the CCDR, can be a first step towards a future regionalization.
And it says that the airport in Santarém “it's not far”: distance should be measured in time and ease of access, not kilometers, in an interview with TSF and Diário de Notícias.
Now let's talk about the new Lisbon airport. Have location preference? Where will it make more sense?
My preference is that the Lisbon airport has to be in the Lisbon region.
And not Santarém, in their view?
Do Not, no, is Lisbon region. beja is not. I belong to the monitoring committee at the airport, which will remain in effect until the end of the year., how do you know, and there was a weighting, because there was this mapping for Beja airport to be Lisbon airport. Therefore, that doesn't make any sense. Now, within the Lisbon region, the one with the best conditions to serve Lisbon, I will be, certainly, according.
As it was said that Beja would be too far, Santarém would also be too far?
I think these issues are being evaluated, because distance has to be measured in time and not in kilometers. What really matters is that there is a temporal proximity service to the airport serving the Lisbon region.. And, therefore, this is something that will be weighed in these assessments that are being made.
Therefore, for you Santarém is a chance?
It's a hypothesis like the others.. As long as they are in the Lisbon region and efficient commuting movements are ensured, efficient and with short travel times. That, obviously, has to be, even to be competitive, because if any citizen who wants to come to the Lisbon region, but that only has a train or a commuting movement every two hours, it's obvious you're not interested. There is also a need for a railroad revolution., accordingly. There has to be so much adequacy, as I say, of commuting, what happens at other airports. ultimately, I speak of Europe, I'm not talking about other regions of the globe, but these are the factors that have to have, and I didn't say it, but that these are environmental issues that must be absolutely taken care of. And, therefore, within this context, environmental issues, questions of temporal proximity, I think that what is fundamental is that it is in the Lisbon region.
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