The promised audit of the Almirante Reis bicycle path and road has already been awarded to the Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC). The remaining cycling network will be audited separately.
The promised audit of the bicycle path on Avenida Almirante Reis will go ahead - as Lisboa Para Pessoas had already reported - and will be held by National Civil Engineering Laboratory (LNEC) by the value of 18.6 thousand eurosaccording to the contract published this Monday, November 7th, on the Base portal. The LNEC was hired by EMEL by direct adjustment.
According to the contract, there will be a "road safety inspection between Areeiro and Martim Moniz squaresinvolving Avenida Almirante Reis and Rua da Palma. The award was made by EMEL on October 12, with the contract being signed between the two parties already this November.
The safety audit - which had been promised by Carlos Moedas following the controversy surrounding the Almirante Reis bicycle path - has a four-month periodas of EMEL's delivery to LNEC "of all the technical documentation to the works to be developed". The audit will culminate in the delivery of a "final report of Generic Road Safety Inspection (ISRg)"This should happen between February and April next year, depending on the actual start of the work and any delays.
According to statements made by EMEL to Lusa news agencyThe audit has three main tasks:
- a collection of information on the design characteristics of roads inspected for road safety, traffic and accidents over the last five years;
- the realization of inspection on site with measurements of traffic characteristics;
- the preparation of the report road safety inspection, indicating the hazards identified in the road space analyzed, the corresponding corrective measures and their implementation.
Carlos Moedas' city government also intends to conduct an audit of the entire cycling network in Lisbon, as Lisboa Para Pessoas reported in September. But the evaluation of the Almirante Reis axis is a separate work, under the responsibility of LNEC. The audit to the remaining bike lanes infrastructure in Lisbon will be done by a public tender, to be launched soon by the Lisbon City Hall.
Admiral Reis returns to the discussion on Wednesday
The Almirante Reis Avenue will be discussed again this week. At the private meeting of the city council scheduled for this Wednesday, the 9th, is foreseen "approve the methodology for the development of the Integrated Project for the Requalification of the Almirante Reis Axis" - In other words, the councilmen of the different parties will discuss and vote on the general lines that will guide the requalification project for that entire axis, between Areeiro and Martim Moniz, a process that became known as "idea contest.
For the same meeting, the PCP takes its proposal with in order to create a "Urban Plan for Almirante Reis Avenue"which we have already talked about hereThe communists believe that the local government should define a concrete plan for that axis, involving not only the avenue but also other arteries, squares and buildings, before moving forward with a requalification of the public space of Avenida Almirante Reis. For its part, the Livre, together with BE and the Citizens for Lisbon, propose that an alteration to the bicycle lane on Avenida Almirante Reis comes with a "draft reasoned amendment" and will also put up for discussion a proposal.
The proposals of the PCP and Livre/BE/Citizens For Lisbon had already been presented before the summer, and it took time to schedule them for discussion and voting at the City Council meeting. We will develop this whole subject soon.
Updated at 17:50 on 9/11/2022: added statements from EMEL, via Lusa.
