Lisbon with 453 esplanade parking spaces
The Lisbon City Council revealed this Monday that municipal protection plans 3 were authorized through the capital, occupied by the Monday that were authorized by the municipal protection pandemic 3, protected by 563 parking spaces, of the covid-19 pandemic program. 1.
“Since the beginning of the pandemic, and under the proposal 729/CM/2020 [Medidas extraordinárias de apoio, no âmbito do programa municipal Lisboa Protege]367 commissioned esplanades were authorized, of the 441 that reached the services of the Municipal Mobility Directorate, communicated”, the Lisbon City Council.
The authorization of these esplanades “implies the occupation of 453 parking spaces”, said the municipality, noting that “this number does not correspond to the spaces currently occupied, since there are establishments that, in the meantime, have disabled the esplanades”.
In a written response to the agency, the municipality Lusa also revealed that “the esplanades located in 20 of the 24 parishes in the city, with the highest incidence in Arroios (74 esplanades) and Santo António (69 esplanades)”.
The four Lisbon parishes without esplanades authorized under the Lisbon Protege municipal program are Campo de Ourique, Carnide, Parque das Nações and Santa Clara.
In addition to Arroios and Santo António, the parishes with the most terraces (21 authorized are Penha de França (33 terraces), São Vicente (32), Alcântara (23), Misericórdia (22), São Domingos Benfica), Areeiro (20), Avenidas Novas (18), Benfica (18), Beato (16), Belém (14), Marvila (13), Estrela (12), Lumiar (12) and Santa Maria Maior (10).
With less than 10 authorized esplanades are the parishes of Ajuda (eight), Campolide (three), Alvalade (one) and Olivais (one), according to municipal information.
In December 2020, measure of December 2020, within the scope of the municipal program of Medina Lisboa Protege, and which was approved by the municipal program of Medina Lisboa Protege, and which was approved by the Municipal Program Lisboa Protege, and which was extended by the city council executive by Carlos Moedas (PSD), in force until the 31st of March.
Another of the measures of this program is an adjustment of the payment for the occupation of the place for the parking necessary for the installation of the license, with the prior agreement of the parish councils, within the scope of the General Regulation for Parking and Stopping on the Public Road of the Municipality of Lisbon, which has been extended until the end of this year.
Lusa asked about the impact of the measures on the installation of esplanades on the loss of revenue and what is expected after the end of the installation period, but received no response.
The current February pandemic calls for extraordinary investments, on February 9, 2019, unanimously for extraordinary economic measures in the context of combating the proposal for two euro economic years, which had the initiative of two euro executives. , on 23 February, the unanimous approval of the Lisbon Municipal Assembly.
On January 5 of this year, the vice-president of the Lisbon Chamber, Filipe Anacoreta Correia (CDS-PP), said that the pandemic in the municipality’s accounts is estimated at 345.7 million euros and the response to covid-19 has already consumed a contingency reserve of a fund in excess of 300 million euros.
In 2020 and 2021, the years of the pandemic, Lisbon City Council saw its expenses increase by 162.7 million euros and revenues decrease by 183 million, because of covid-19, according to data revealed by Filipe Anacoreta Correia.
Approved in December 2020, the Lisbon Protege municipal program, with a global budget of 90 million euros, includes a set of measures to support companies, families and the social and cultural sectors, to lessen the impact of the pandemic on the city’s economy and prepare the future.