Portugal’s infrastructure authority (IP) has announced that its contractor is starting “urgent roadworks” on the eastern section of the EN125 road between Olhão and Vila Real de Santo António.
The €250,000 works will take 45 days to complete and will be finished “before the height of summer” (in other words, the second half of July), the road authority says.
IP says the works will ensure “a significant improvement of the conditions of comfort and safety for the populations of the region, as well as the thousands of tourists who come to the Algarve to enjoy their holidays”.
The roadworks were announced in April and named “urgent” following a wave of outrage about the state of the road.
Meantime, the EN125 Sotavento citizens’ movement has handed a petition demanding extensive roadworks on the eastern section of the EN125, signed by over 7,000 people, to PSD MP Cristóvão Norte, who represented the Portuguese Parliament during a meeting with the petitioners in VRSA on Monday.
The movement is also planning a five-kilometre demonstration next Sunday (June 10).
Protestors will be marching on foot or on two wheels. The protest will begin at the main roundabout of Vila Nova de Cacela at 10am and come to an end at the Retur junction.
There will be a bus ride back to Vila Nova de Cacela at the end of the march.
michael.bruxo@algarveresident.com
