Government studies Via Expresso Ponta do Sol-Canhas

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

During the celebrations of the 445th anniversary of the Parish of Canhas, the regional secretary for Equipment and Infrastructure, Pedro Fino, announced that the Regional Government (GR) is studying the Via Expresso Ponta do Sol – Canhas, as well as the duplication of the road platform between Ribeira Brava and Ponta do Sol.

“Regarding the Via Expresso Ponta do Sol-Canhas, an old aspiration of the local population, and which was already mentioned in the speech by the President of the Parish Council, the Regional Government is working to materialize this important investment”, he said, pointing out that , “it is currently studying the different solutions for the layout of this route”. “We expect, in the next legislature, to finalize this study and work to guarantee the source of financing necessary for the realization of this important work”, he advanced.

Alongside this work, he underlined that “the Regional Government is also carrying out all the necessary studies (traffic studies, geological and geotechnical prospecting) for the Duplication of the Road Platform between Ribeira Brava and the parish of Ponta Sol”. “This work will be fundamental for the municipalities of Ponta do Sol and Calheta, as it will accompany the future development of these two municipalities, which will be consolidated by the bet and various investments in attractive poles carried out by the Regional Government in the western part of the Region”, he underlined.

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8 Responses

  1. And where are they going to add that road? By taking land off the canhas people? Why do we canheiros need an espresso Road? We the people of canhas need small roads so old people who live in places that only accessible via a vereda ,no ambulance or dr fire trucks or taxi or funeral cars can get to a person , the two most important units like ambulance and fire trucks can’t get to some people in canhas , my old mother for instance been at home for over 3 years stuck there without seeing anyone because she can’t walk to the main road, as she can’t walk.
    She’s in a wheelchair now and needs help to get her on the wheelchair to get from her house to the vereda then on to the main road, since 1979 1980 the ponta do sol government have promised my family an access road. Never happened. Electricity and water I had to pay to get the electricity poles from man road on to the vereda to get my old mum electricity in early 90s, I came to uk to actually be able to afford to pay for that,at the time it cost me hundred and 20 thousand escudos to get my mother electricity. Plus water pipes , 40 years later she still stuck there because there’s no road to get a car to go pick her up to take her to the dr or an ambulance when she needs one , the thing is she needs an ambulance most months of the year. And those idiots In ponta do sol want to spend money on a road that will destroy agricultural land. And homes possibly.
    Makes me so mad.

  2. Amazing that they find money for this totally unnecessary road when Sao Vicente has been crying out for an upgrade to their shorefront for years. The condition of Sao Vicente’s shorefront is shameful to say the least. There are no pavements or public access to the beaches, no landscaping and no parking. One person has already died trying to cross the road and I wonder how many more need to die before the regional government wakes up and does something about it.

  3. Completely unnecessary road. There are better ways that Canhas could use that money. Better walkways for people, fix the “veredas”, better upkeep of the existing road tarmac.
    Canhas definitely does not need an expressway. Takes less than 10 minutes to arrive to Vila Ponta do Sol with current roads. Expressway would kill the small businesses, like coffee shops, little supermarkets and would infuriate the population after the Government expropriates them of their lands.
    I would urge the Regional Government to rethink this project and actually seek the feedback from the population of Canhas that is informed enough to give those answers. Please don ask the 80 year olds who would say yes with a kind heart. Ask the 20, 30,40,50 year olds that are able to differentiate between what is good for Canhas and what it is not.

    1. Well my mother is neatly 80 and she doesn’t want that. She wants a road where she lives so doctor and ambulance and fire brigade can get to her. The old people I know don’t want that express road it’s a stupid Idea the government have. And their bodies who lick their shoes.

  4. Sadly the politicians prefer their vanity projects and the work it gives to their friends in the roads and tunnel building sectors. The only way to make the politicians listen is to stop voting for them and support alternative parties that promise to work for the voters not the corporations and multi millionaires to whom they are in bed with and who rely on unquestioning loyalty from a brainwashed population. Hence the annual fascist rally up in the mountains which reinforces the idea that only the PSD can rule Madeira.

  5. Totally unnecessary road, but wait it will allow the tourists to get to the mountains quicker [where they will find no provision for car parking! and as for an extension of the Ribiera Brava road, it’s a white elephant, closed more than open. Hire cars get abandoned well away from the Levadas here in Ponta do Sol, one kindly blocking the road so an ambulance couldn’t get to where it was urgently needed. Governments the world over are all the same, if it’s good for their pockets great, if it only benefits the local population ” not necessary” Slowly the Government is ruining our beautiful island…rant over, sorry.

  6. Well I agree with everyone around where my old mother lives in Santo Antonio da Serra Santa Cruz road that goes to Santo da Serra neither they have any pavement to walk in the road and the buses neither are capable to go up in that long road to collect no one .They aspect the old and infirm and young people walk down in road without any type of pavement to get the bus near from Residencial Prisma this isn’t right or correct . The Madeira government instead spending the money in this new expresso road they make a inventory with help of social services should improve the road where old people live or supply some buses for them to use when they need.

    1. Exactly my point. As you can see above. My mother lives in canhas. And where she lives there’s no access other then a vareda that’s so tiny and badly maintained, the people have sugar cane there uses the vareda to pack the sugar cane and destroy the cement and my 80 year old mum who needs a wheelchair can’t get passed as she has no access. It’s disgusting that they going to use so much money and destroy the beautiful agricultural sector to put an espresso Road that goes no where.
      Canhas have the a direct main road from ponta do sol to Paul da Serra. Perfectly good roads no need for an extension as to be honest most of the tourists no longer use that route. They use the Porto Moniz or São Vicente Expresss way. Why aren’t people in Madeira campaigning against those obscenities? Over building and over roads? Ridiculous. Young people needs to stand up against the hierarchy

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