Beja: airfare construction in the Industrial Area / Quarries of public interest..
The Government has recognized the public interest of the project to build a road airfare on the railway line from Alentejo, Quarries in, Parishes in the Union of Salvador and Santa Maria, county Beja. The new Executive not yet discussed the issue.
In order published in the Official Gazette signed by the Secretary of State for Regional Planning and Nature Conservation, Célia Maria Gomes de Oliveira Ramos, the Government recognizes the interest in the construction of a road airfare on the railway line from Alentejo, that would link the new area of ​​economic activities (aka Barrio San Miguel) and Quarries.
The Executive previous project of the Municipality of Beja aimed at building a road airfare on the railway line from Alentejo, using for this purpose 4179 na single integrated m2 National Ecological Reserve (REN) the city of Beja.
The project that the municipality intended to carry out aimed to promote functional interconnection of two important areas of the city of Beja, namely an area for economic activities and an urban space that provides a structured relationship with the urban center (of Crop and Quarries Street).
The planned intervention is reflected in the upgrading of an existing urban road, underway in Street Farming and area of ​​quarries and the creation of a new accessibility through the execution of a work of art that allow the air passing over the line of railway, iron, involving drainage operations, paving, signaling and safety equipment installation.
The matter had already been discussed at the Municipal Assembly of Beja and there was consensus in the stands of the CDU and PS.
When Lidador News (LN) the new mayor of Beja, Paul Arsenio, It considered that “the new area of ​​economic activity is to maintain” adding that “the new accessibility has not yet been analyzed and will be re-evaluated”, justifying that the Technical Office “It will be called to decide on the feasibility of the project”, finished.
In points made by the Secretary of State for Regional Planning and Nature Conservation, is argued that the area over which focuses intervention, located at the confluence of two lines of railway, iron, not nonexistent viable alternative to the project location in areas not included in the REN, the project does not contravene the provisions of the Master Plan of Beja, the Municipal Assembly of Beja recognized, by resolution of 21 November 2016, the municipal interest of the project, which was obtained the consent of Portugal Infrastructure, S. A., both for the realization of the project as to the occupation of the area that is public railway, therefore the Government recognizes the public interest the construction project of road airfare on the railway line from Alentejo.
In its order the Secretary of State for Regional Planning and Nature Conservation, CĂ©lia Maria Gomes de Oliveira Ramos, leaves expressed the execution of the work “It is subject to the conditions imposed by the authorities who spoke about the project and the mitigation measures recommended in this, reserving the right to future repeal of this act”.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
