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.
