Access to Falesia beach still in ruins after November storms

Paul 28 March 2016

faleisiabeach Tourists visiting Falésia beach in Albufeira, this Easter weekend were faced with a collapsed wooden stairway, destroyed in the November 1st storm last year

Many clambered down with some difficulty but none were impressed that six months later, this essential access still lay in ruins.

The regional director of the Portuguese Environment Agency announced that the wooden stairway will be rebuilt by May 15th this year, and that work will start in mid-April.

This weak response displays the mixture of arrogance and inefficiency for which the agency has become known.

The Albufeira council area accounts for 40% of the Algarve’s tourist income and to leave this structure in a state of collapse at the start of what is building up to be a record year for tourism in Portugal is reprehensible.

Foto: João Arroja, Jornal do Algarve

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+1 #2 dw 2016-03-29 19:27

Austerity imposed by those so-called developed countries on the corrupted debt colony that is Portugal plays its part too. The logic behind austerity demands that the debt be repaid instead of repairing the stairway now, leading to even more debt later.

+6 #1 Dierdre 2016-03-29 10:36

In a more developed country, knowing the millions of euros generated by tourism and the image needing to be projected in a competitive world - this shrieks incompetence !

Repairing these stairs would cost a few thousand - about a weeks salary for the incompetents avoiding the decisions to rebuild them ! Would those tourists we can see scrambling up alongside the stairs take favourable reports back to their homelands ?

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