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The Matosinhos-Leça da Palmeira City Council asked the APDL for explanations on Tuesday about the damage to the mobile bridge of the port of Leixões, which prohibits access to cars and pedestrians, and defended the need to build a “third crossing”.
In a statement, the Parish Council states that “it has already requested explanations about what happened, that is, about the reason for the breakdown and the period of closure of car and pedestrian traffic.”
The breakdown and the interdiction were announced this Tuesday afternoon, but no date or forecast was set for the reopening of the mobile bridge.
We understand the need to carry out maintenance and conservation actions, as long as they are scheduled, preventive and fast. The truth is that our fellow citizens cannot be left without a pedestrian crossing alternative or with their lives deeply damaged by the successive and prolonged closures. of the mobile bridge ”, underlined Pedro Sousa, president of the Parish Council of Matosinhos-Leça da Palmeira.
The mayor safeguards that, after the letter addressed to the Administration of the Duero, Leixões and Viana do Castelo Ports, APDL, “the president of the board of directors, Nuno Araújo, has already taken care to respond immediately and inform that it will be a situation unexpected and all contingency procedures have already been activated. “
By the way, it is recalled that “during the last ten years, the Board and Parish Assembly have debated and defended, on several occasions, the need to build a ‘third crossing’ (in addition to the mobile bridge and the large bridge of the A28) and the respective widening of the A28 between Matosinhos and the roundabout of the AEP, in order to free the city center from the excess of vehicles that, daily, cross it towards municipalities located in the South or North ”.
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