The CDU warns the Porto Chamber that the Francos area has become a "drug trade area" – Observer

The communist councilor of the City Council of Porto asked this Saturday to the municipality and the company Metro do Porto to solve the problems of accessibility to people with disabilities, "drug trafficking" and garbage in neighborhoods of Francos, municipality of Ramalde. Councilor Ilda Figueiredo visited the region of Francos and its neighborhoods, where about two thousand people live, she said, and found that the revitalization and construction of the variant "begun eight years ago" between the residents district of Francos and the municipal district of Francos were suspended and today has given rise to a drug trade area with homes and land abandoned, creating difficulties for the population of these two neighborhoods who also complain of "

In addition to the" drug "and" rubble left behind by the demolition of houses "there is another situation that" inferniza "the population of these neighborhoods is the "lack of access for disabled people and people with reduced mobility" in the "underground underground" denounces Ilda Figueiredo, criticizing the "poor lighting" in these places.

The Advanced CDU in Lusa which expo will be the problems identified in the Francos region at the next meeting of the mayor of Porto, which is scheduled for next Tuesday, 24, and will ask the local authority to ask Metro do Porto to explain the 'difficulty of 39; access "in this area. On August 2, 2016, the Chamber of Porto placed on its official page information entitled "The demolitions among the Franks eliminate the health and public safety problems", in which she announced to the population that she proceeded to the demolition of several ruined houses, next to the District of Francos, at the intersection of Rua Direita de Francos and Travessa do Arouca

"With this operation there is more emphasis on Insanity and insecurity in the city.These demolitions, in addition to the elimination of public health and safety problems, which many people complain about, will allow the construction of a road that will allow 39, direct access to the Bessa Rotunda from the Francos region, planned more than ten years ago. "

According to the CDU adviser, the work announced has yet to be done.

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