Vila Nova de Gaia City Council announced the investment, worth 2.5 million euros, for the "installation of three elevators between Jardim do Morro and Rua Cândido dos Reis", this Monday, February 27, after the municipal executive meeting
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PatrocÃnio Azevedo, vice-president of the municipality, declared to the media that a public tender had been launched, "but it was deserted". However, according to the news advanced by Porto Canal, a new tender is already in sight.
The three elevators in question will "allow the connection between the high and low levels of that area of the city", being "an added value in the movement of people, particularly those with reduced mobility, considered.
According to the same source, PatrocÃnio Azevedo also revealed that the local authority intends to "integrate the trips of the cable car in the Andante network (intermodal transport title to be used in public transports in the Metropolitan Area of Porto), namely in the single pass".
The fourth elevator, which would connect Jardim do Morro to the Serra do Pilar Monastery, was not approved by the Regional Directorate of Culture of the North (DRCN), according to the vice-president's statements.