Lisbon on the wrong way
Lisbon was the main surprise of the last local councilors, more than half a year ago after the elections, but who dismounted to the mayor, the PS and their far-left partners still haven’t gotten used to the fact that they have passed to the position of opposition.
And what happened to the city, led by the city, led by victory, also happened PSD and it was not the decision that was decided by the winning electorate.
Carlos Moedas has his indisputable merit, but on September 28, 2021, what the people did was to penalize Fernando Medina for the disastrous decisions to flood the skin with bike paths and radars, turning it completely towards tourists and those who visit it and limiting -the one who and/or works and for living with an unbearable arrogance, like her peers in the executive and those of the parish councils – with Margarida Martins to all the limits of decency, which was fatal.
But, through the same humility, he began to learn to accept defeat and Moedas, Medina was the only one to draw the necessary conclusions.
Furthermore, the PS and the extreme left opposition continue to consider themselves the owners and servants of a policy of selection in cities, of selection of activists if judged hostages or of cities.
As if both of them didn’t go to victory or are already recovering from the surprise, unprepared that they went to defeat, the first, to victory, the second.
The history of the bike path on Av. Almirante Reis, which remains a chaos to be avoided at any time of the dictatorship of minorities, which was installed in Lisbon.
But the height of expression of this ridiculous form of governance, which welcomes and dislikes citizens who are in the business of going, yet to be revealed in all its splendor, which happened with the non-municipal coalition, with o Free to take the exit point and remaining left a reduction of 10 km/h in the maximum speed of circulation in the capital – transforming many residential and non-residential areas into bizarre executive 20 km/h for motor vehicles.
What should be mandatory, yes, was that bicycles and scooters circulate at a maximum of 10 km/h not only in these areas but in all the cycle paths that confine or invade Lisbon’s sidewalks and where accidents and upsets for pedestrians and even for the other users of these means of transport so in vogue, they happen with unusual frequency.
That, yes, was well done.
Moreover, the proposal of the free, which is different from riding a lot of Lisbon, which is different from riding a scooter – that is, riding a scooter very little – that is, from very far from a scooter – get them the protection of Cascais to Vila Franca de Xira, next to them. to the sea and the Tagus, which will make perfect sense there –, it is an aberrant leadership that only came to comfort Moedas and the coalition for its own sake.
It’s just that, in this way, you can now send the city close to the hunting radars all over the city. From the real highways where you can only travel at 50 km/h (and these are examples of the incongruity of the limitation where there is neither a door nor a pedestrian crossing) to the 2nd Circular, where it is even forbidden to drive in full lane (50 km/h sections) faster than in deceleration lanes (60 km/h) for drivers (from Lisbon and not only) without a license.
In the election campaign, Moedas pledged to be different. After all, and just as he ended up doing on Av. Admiral Reis, he sprayed himself for those who voted for him, played cards and gave them again. Leaving everything almost the same.
download, now, has the argument even earlier, because he will fight with everything in his power so that the proposal of the Livre approved at a meeting of the city council executive – against a meeting at more than 10 km / h maximum circulation on the streets from Lisbon – do not go ahead.
The question that arises – and that goes against the wishes of many local authorities in the country – is that the municipal electoral law must have been changed a long time ago, in order to import in the municipalities as rules that serve the country: the municipalities should elect a Single choice list and choose your mayor, who must form a government of technicians and people capable of governing the city, under political scrutiny by the municipal assembly.
As long as this is not the case, and if the distribution of agreements of geringing agreements of portfolios and despised by them.
And that is not democratic.