This first part of the overall project is budgeted at €750,000 and will take three months to complete.
A second phase of the project, covering ten kilometres from Buraca to the Airport, is due to start at a later date, probably in August, at a cost of €12 million and is expected to take eight months to complete.
Lisbon Councillor for Urbanism Manuel Salgado stressed that the “Segunda Circular project is exceptionally well planned out in all of its interventions, in the way they are to be executed, and in the way that the impact they will have on drivers is reduced to a minimum.
“The idea is to start [work] on the stretch from Buraca to Radial de Benfica, which is one of the stretches where most people in Lisbon join [the road], while simultaneously starting on Avenida de Berlin to the Clock Roundabout, which is another stretch, from Avenida Almirante Gago Coutinho, via which a lot of people enter the city and then head towards the central area”, the Councillor specified.
The project aims to make what is one of Portugal’s busiest roads greener, more environmentally—friendly, safer, and to help traffic flow better.
Improvements are to be made for public transport and the overall speed limit will be reduced from 80 to 60 kilometres an hour.
Noise barriers will be erected, floor drainage is to be renovated, and illumination and signage renewed.