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The document had the favorable votes of the PS, PSD, CDS-PP and BE and abstained from the PCP, a source from the office of Councilor Teresa Leal Coelho, who presented the proposal, told Lusa.
In 2012, the autarky, led by the PS, undertook a series of changes in road traffic in the Marquês de Pombal roundabout and in Avenida da Liberdade, which immediately had an impact “on all mobility in the city of Lisbon, due to the importance of this area as a distributor of traffic flows in the city ”, defends the mayor chosen by the PSD in the text.
On Avenida da Liberdade, the circulation routes of the central corridor were redefined and the circulation system in the side corridors was also modified, making it impossible to travel the entire avenue on the sides in the same direction.
“There were serious disturbances in the implementation of this new circulation scheme, not only for residents and merchants, but also for users of the Avenida da Liberdade axis”, highlights Teresa Leal Coelho in the document, adding that “the interruption of continuity the traffic between the sections of the side strips even made it difficult to find a parking space “.
The one chosen by the PSD, whose political confidence was taken away by the party council last year, emphasizes that “the fact that there is an obligation to enter the central axis of the Avenue, as there is no continuity of circulation between sections, does not it only increases the congestion of the central strips, since it did not have the effect announced by the Lisbon City Council regarding the reduction of polluting gas emissions, specifically nitrogen dioxide ”.
In addition, the proposal points out, this measure, finally approved in 2013, caused the diversion of traffic towards the city’s arteries “which were not and are not prepared to handle the high flows that are felt, especially at rush hour, that is, parallel streets to Avenida da Liberdade, as well as the axis of Avenida Almirante Reis and Rua da Escola Politécnica ”.
According to the document, in 2019, “the average concentrations of nitrogen dioxide on Avenida da Liberdade were quite high, and only experienced a drastic reduction during alert and emergency states and the first phase of deflation.”
“We are, therefore, today further away from achieving one of the primary objectives of the set of referred changes, which meant drastically reducing the levels of pollution present in the Avenida da Liberdade corridor,” the proposal also underlines.
