Tag Archives: traffic
Quinta do Lago authorities trying to tax parking at malls
The local Quinta do Lago authorities have decided to re-introduce paid parking at a popular shopping area for the duration of the summer which is understandable since there are money shortages everywhere but it’s less understandable when you find out that this decision was successfully contested last year by a group of local residents.
A call to end the A22 toll from the Algarve tourism sector
Three major figures leading the Algarve tourism sector have recently called for the immediate suspicion of the very controversial toll charges on the A22 motorway – Via do Infante – one of them describing them as being a “gross economic, political and social error”.
Why has this not happened sooner? Well the protest was sparked by the decision of the Portuguese Government to not extend the exemption granted to residents beyond the end of September, even if by all accounts the tourism sector was on the whole expecting it.
