Mértola: Populations of Spain and Portugal demonstrate against closure of the international bridge
Populations of Spain and Portugal manifested side of the closure against the border of the Guadiana International Bridge that connects the two countries Pomarão. landslides on the Spanish side there 3 months, the HU-6400 road keeps the bridge impassable.
The populations of the localities of the Right Bank of the River Guadiana Mértola county, They will join the neighbors of Ayuntamientos of El Granado, Puebla de Guzman, Villanueva de los Castillejos, El Almendro and Tharsis, the Heulva Province, Spain, in protest to be held tomorrow, Saturday, to demand the reopening of the Lower Guadiana International Bridge, that connects the two countries.
The bridge linking Portugal and Spain, in the town of Pomarão (Mértola), It is closed to traffic for three months, due to a landslide in the HU-6400, do next to "our brothers". The subsidence occurred about 100 meters from the bridge deck and dragged to the highway several tons of earth and stones, which barred that completely.
The president of Mértola Chamber has met with the infrastructures of the Secretary of State so that it intercede with the Spanish Government, to take effect works and removal of land, that opens up the route and bridge. "The Portuguese Government is awaiting the scheduling of a meeting", Lidador told the News (LN), Jorge Rosa, mayoral mertolense. "The reasons for the works have not been done are several. One of which is due to political disagreements between the Central Government is the PP and the PSOE is that autonomic, about who is the burden of the work. sure, certain is that there is no traffic three months ago ", concluded.
The mayor recalled that the bridge "allows the arrival of many tourists and diners Spanish and Portuguese-way to acquire basic necessities and fuel across the border", justified.
In the days 1 and 2 April, I have not done-Pomarão, River Fish Festival, initiative with many hundreds of Spanish visitors who thus been deprived of a presence at the event, or else subject themselves to do more than one hundred kilometers, when they did before twelve.
A trader restoration of Pomarão, He told LN that "life stopped here. We lost the main source of revenue that were the Spanish ", justifying that in Spain, the road cut "is marked 12 kilometers before and who knows the site no longer goes ", fired our interlocutor.
so there is still Spanish citizens who leave the car on the roadside and do walk about 500 meters to lunch in Pomarão. A Civil Guard, It has turned a blind eye to the situation.
The Lower Guadiana International Bridge opened in 26 February 2009 and it meant an investment that was around 2,3 million. The Chamber of Mértola and the Diputación Provincial de Huelva invested 572 thousand euros and the remaining 1,7 million of FEDES, by HUBAAL-Interreg IIIA project.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
