Improvements to EN 125 all set

The timeline comes from Paulo Campos, assistant Secretary of State for public roads and communications.

Campos explained that all the “obstacles and vicissitudes” that had dogged the project were at last over.

Improvements to the EN125 are important for the Algarve, and for the country, because it’s a road that has “a huge number of road accidents”, Campos agreed, stressing that the new works would improve traffic circulation and organisation, and “pretty-up” the road’s integration within the landscape it runs through from Vila Real de Santo António to Sagres.

The project represents an investment of around 150 million euros, and will take in the full length of the road, involving 273 kilometres and running through 14 of the region’s 16 boroughs.

Campos did admit that tolls could be introduced on the Via do Infante (A22) before the EN125’s full improvement has been completed, but guaranteed that if this happened, residents of the Algarve would be exempt from paying any road tolls.