The Oeiras Move application, the responsibility of the municipal company Parques Tejo, was presented this Tuesday at the Portugal Mobi Summit and reflects the municipality’s mobility policy and management, highlighting the 13 existing car parks.
In the application, presented by the president of Parques Tejo, a municipal company in charge of the development, management and operation of integrated mobility and urban parking systems and solutions, access to electric charging services may be facilitated, with more advantageous rates for users. neighbors of Oeiras.
Quick access to the 13 car parks or integration with existing taxi services in Oeiras are other features, in addition to free parking for up to 120 minutes a day for everyone.
14 new parks are also planned, five of which will be “soon”, adding another 2,333 spaces to the approximately 2,200 already existing.
In terms of soft mobility, the construction of at least 50 kilometers of bike lanes stands out, in addition to the expansion of the municipal network of shared bicycles, which will be added to the existing offer of ‘docless’ scooters and electric bicycles for short distances. travel.
Present at the presentation, the president of the Chamber of Oeiras, Isaltino Morais, highlighted that the pride that the executive has for the “ambitious projects that are underway” is “undeniable”, urging other entities with planning powers at the national level and regional ones follow the spirit of initiative that the municipality of Oeiras has demonstrated over the last decades.
Among the projects is the reactivation of the Oeiras Automatic Urban Transport System (SATUO), with a planned investment of 90 million euros, which will connect the CP Cascais/Oeiras line in Paço de Arcos with the business parks of the municipality and the Sintra CP line.
The intention, according to Isaltino Morais, “is to reactivate the system on the route between Paço de Arcos and Lagoas Parque and Quinta da Fonte in the coming years, hoping that, in less than a decade, the connection with Taguspark, which was in the initial plan, and then to the municipality of Sintra.”
The project “will respond to the travel flows of those who work in business parks, creating a “true alternative for efficient and sustainable mobility,” according to the president of Parques Tajo, Rui Rei.
This Tuesday, the seventh edition of the Portugal Mobi Summit took place at Parque dos Poetas, in Oeiras, in the district of Lisbon, where urban mobility issues were debated and the ‘Oeiras Move’ strategy was presented, under the responsibility of Parques Tajo. .
Source: Observadora
