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Toll exemption? Gaia's former vice-president appeals to the PS to include the A29 and A41
The former vice-president of the Vila Nova de Gaia Chamber and former PSD deputy, Firmino Pereira, today appealed to the PS parliamentary group to include the A29 and A41 in the proposal for toll exemptions.
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"It is incomprehensible that part of the A29 in Gaia, which was built on the layout of the National Road 109, continues to have gantries, namely the one in Gulpilhares, which many users avoid and drive on secondary streets in the urban fabric of Vila Nova de Gaia", he says.
Regarding the A41, for the former member of parliament "this road should no longer have tolls [because], if it were used, it could relieve the saturated and congested Inner Beltway (VCI)".
"The alternative to the A29 is to drive on secondary streets in Gaia, which are usually very congested and do not have the capacity for so much road traffic, and the A41 (CREP) could be very useful for our VCI, which is a torment for drivers", he summarises.
The social democrat wants the PS parliamentary group, which managed, against the will of the Government that wanted the reduction to be gradual, to approve the end of tolls on the former scuts, to include the A29 and the A41 in the final proposal.
"The PS in the current Assembly of the Republic managed to approve the end of tolls on the former scuts [A4, A13 and A 13-1, A22. A23. A24, A25 and A28] from 1 January 2025 (...). Firmino Pereira appeals to the PS parliamentary group, which authored the proposal for toll exemptions, to include these two roads [A29 and A41] in the final project to be approved in the Assembly of the Republic", reads the text sent to Lusa.
Firmino Pereira states that the scuts were built as a model with no costs for the user, "a principle changed in 2010 by the socialist government of José Sócrates, which decided to introduce tolls on all the scuts concessions", he criticised.
In the same statement, the former vice-president of the Gaia City Council accuses the current one of "inaction", asking him to demand and demonstrate in defence of the exemption of tolls on the A29 and A41.
The A41, or CREP, is a 62-kilometre motorway that surrounds the Porto Metropolitan Area.
It is estimated to serve more than 1.1 million inhabitants.
The A29, also known as the Costa da Prata motorway, connects the A25 near the town of Ângela, in the municipality of Albergaria-a-Velha, to the CRIP (Porto Inner Regional Ring Road), in Vilar de Andorinho, Gaia.
It is an alternative parallel to the A1 for trips between Aveiro and Porto, having been described for many years not as a motorway, but as a fast road.
Read Also: Leiria wants the end of tolls on the Variante da Batalha and on sections of the A8 (Portuguese version)
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