Just as the region was expecting roadworks to start again in earnest on the long-delayed improvements to the EN125, news comes that the grand announcement made by the authorities last month may have been nothing more than an exercise in party-political propaganda.
Loulé mayor Vítor Aleixo has already slammed the revised roadworks plan for being ‘far too little’ to make any decent kind of difference – but now former Faro mayor José Vitorino contends the whole thing may all have been a summer bout of old-boy back-slapping.
Demanding that the works go ahead as promised, he declares in a statement on civic website “Salvar Faro com Coração” (Save Faro with Heart) that what is taking place at the moment is “camouflage” at the pace of a snail.
At the time of the grand announcement, Faro Mayor Rogério Bacalhau promised that “within a week, works would be going full-steam ahead, with more than 50 men and respective machines”, writes Vitorino.
But instead, the day before yesterday, “there was only three machines working”.
“Everything is on a go-slow,” he added – and “there are certain things” that should not be used for party political effects.
“Unfortunately it is another nail of discredit for agents of public authority,” he concludes.
EN125 roadworks “from frying pan to fire”
