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The former communist mayor of Borba João Proença (1990/2001) said Wednesday that he was "surprised" by the collapse of Route 255, in quarries, stressing that in his day, via.
"I was a bit surprised, he was not expecting such a thing to happen without warning, it's that these things always start with a landslide, a hole that now, something so serious does not count, "he said.
Contacted by the Lusa agency, the former mayor, who is again the president of the CDU at the House of Borba, in the district of Évora, in the municipal elections of 2017, recalled that in its mandate, the mandate of the still national section 255, later municipal, was "a conflict between the industrialists" of the marble and the "civil transit".
"It was mud on the road, water on the road" and, while "the industrialists complained to work", the "civilians, who we all were, complained because our cars were full of mud and water, "he recalled. This "conflict" of the time was "dealt with Borba 's urbanization plan", when "all decisions were made regarding the incompetence" of EN255 and "l'. accessibility of Borba to the variant A6 for Vila Viçosa ", evoked.
The last section of the A6 motorway, between Estremoz (Évora) and Elvas (Portalegre), was inaugurated in September 1999. The project included a variant of Vila Viçosa, whose objective was, according to João Proença, to work " as an alternative "to the 255 who collapsed on the 19th, making at least two dead and three missing.
The process of "acceptance of the road through the camera and declassification of this portion of road was only completed years later, already under the mandates of Angelo de Sá" (PS ), who headed the chamber between 2001 and 2013, said the former mayor of the CDU. .
In his time, he stressed, "security has never been a problem", the other being the discussion: "It is the resource, the marble, that one had to be exempted from this existing traffic, what was in conflict "because" the machines run from one side to the other of the road, the quarries are located on both sides "and" it was not necessary to hinder their exploitation ".
This "industrial claim was understandable" because the information of the technicians, from prospects, "indicated a high quality marble area" and "the resource has conquered the circulation," admitted a former mayor, insisting that 39; he who justified "that all variants are made".
According to João Proença, this section of Route 255, after disqualification, should have been "intended for the exploitation of marble", with "a conditioned circulation to people to work for quarries" and, even if it There was another traffic, "the priority should have been defined for the exploitation" of this resource and should have been "marked" to point to it.
Yet, arguing that the accident of 19 was "very natural", João Proença argued that "the guilt can not be attributed to the mayors", who are "poor devils" who want to "facilitate everything at times" and no can "evaluate everything".
"I did not even think that there was soil, you look at it and you only see rock, you do not see so much land under the road," he said, pointing out that Was at the inspection and technical managers careers to go "to see if that was in order".
The landslide of a large volume of land on Route 255 between Borba and Vila Viçosa resulted in the displacement of a significant amount of rocks, blocks of marble and earth in two quarries adjoining the 19 of this month at 15:45.
The public prosecutor opened an investigation into the circumstances of the accident and the government requested an urgent inspection of the authorization, operation, monitoring and suspension of the accident. quarrying located in the Borba region.
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