Lagos: 1.48 kilometres, a cost of €3.47 million and happiness at last for motorists who now can use the new road that links the Praia da Luz to the Fonte Coberta roundabouts which takes the pressure of the busy city of Lagos.
The construction under Rotas do Algarve Litoral was meant to be finished “at the latest by April” - so July 1st is not bad.
Jorge Botelho, the president of the Algarve mayors’ group AMAL, said these works are welcome, but regrets the delay in upgrading the remaining parts of the EN125.
The announcement for the opening of the new Lagos road came from Portugal’s new infrastructure body Infraestruturas de Portugal, formerly Estradas de Portugal, which said the resurfacing work on the Lagos to Vila do Bispo stretch should be completed “by the end of July” and the long-awaited Faro bypass will open “shortly.”
This Faro bypass will cut an estimated 20,000 vehicles a day which currently have to weave through the city and will enable traffic from the east to get to the airport without going through the city where lengthy traffic queues currently are a daily irritation, adding up to 30 minutes to journey times.
Infraestruturas de Portugal, developing increasingly bizarre excuses to explain its incompetence, commented that improvements to the Olhão to Lagos stretch of the EN 125 will be on hold until after the summer season ‘so as not to affect the traffic flow.’
