The president of Infrastructure Portugal (IP), António Ramalho, revealed this Wednesday, the station of Santa Apolonia, Lisbon, will keep the rail terminal, but with commercial exploitation, even if the possibility of come to a hotel.
“We would like to have the Santa Apolonia valued station with railway terminal, but commercial use, because the other side will be the Cruise Terminal,” said Antonio Ramalho, when questioned by the PCP Bruno Dias deputy on plans for the train station in Lisbon.
The question comes after last week the representatives of trade unions of the former REFER denouncing “the dump workers in installations which gradually are being real estate business.”
In the commission of Economy, Innovation and Public Works, António Ramalho admitted the possibility of Santa Apolonia come to a hotel, giving the successful example to other buildings owned by the public company, such as the Rossio station generating an annual income of one million euros.
Still, the official assured that plans for the Santa Apolonia train station maintain their rail terminal vocation.
“We are trying to enhance the seasons,” he stressed, still giving the example of São Bento station in Porto, “one of the most beautiful in the world”, which receives about 4,000 visitors a year who do not They go by train.
No need to plan for the station Porto train, the official said that “the sides had fire trucks and scrap of old compositions,” considering that it was not “an example to maintain.”
About successive changes of the position of former employees Refer and Estradas de Portugal, following the merger of two public companies, António Ramalho devalued the issue, with only 13 people will have to make three changes and that there are workers to move from the Coimbra Palace to Santa Apolonia, which are distant 100 meters.
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