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Fernando Medina clarified, in an interview with RTP3 on Wednesday night, the situation of Madonna's car park. The Mayor of Lisbon has stated that the situation of the parking concession in Madonna is not an "exceptional or unique situation" and guarantees that the singer has not received any special treatment.
If there is free ground temporarily, we make a transfer. There is no exception, "said the mayor who refuses to criticize the fact that the chamber is more concerned with the celebrities who settle in Lisbon than their citizens.
Medina assured that the Camera regulations were correctly enforced and prompted city deputies to update the price list if they consider the values to be low. When she was asked about the possibility that "any citizen" would ask for a similar parking agreement, Medina said that if the land was available, the chamber would do it.
The mayor considered that the situation was causing "surprisingly" noise in the public opinion "and that the question is only news because "that is who deals". Although it does not confirm that the agreement with Madonna involves 15 vehicles, Medina said the situation is temporary since the area in question belongs to the Pombal Palace, which is being negotiated to become the new embassy. of Timor-Leste.
Fernando Medina believes that one of the major problems of Lisbon is the lack of parking. Thus, since taking the direction of the chamber in 2015, has adopted a strategy of creating parking areas.
According to the Mayor, 22 car parks have already been created, totaling 3,000 seats.
In the same interview, Fernando Medina felt that the issue of parking is "fundamentally" "bad" access to the city. "This problem mainly affects residents of the city." The inhabitants of the city of Lisbon are doubly penalized for the difficulty of parking and the difficulty of circulating in the city, "he said.
To remedy this problem, the mayor announced that the municipality would invest in the expansion of the transport network According to Medina, the Lisbon City Council is in negotiations with Oeiras to extend the power line 15 to the Broken Cross, where it already existed.The goal is to extend the network to suburban municipalities from Amadora and Loures, measures still under study.
Enlargement will be accompanied by the acquisition of 15 new modern electric models that will complement the current 15 th During the interview, Medina also announced that Carris' fleet will be strengthened with another 200 buses starting in September. According to the RTP, the Lisbon Chamber will invest a total of 150 million euros in the public transport network by 2021. In total, 430 buses and 30 electric cars will be acquired.
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