Estradas de Portual announced today that work on the relief road around the north of Faro has resumed, having been suspended in 2011.
The work in the high tourist season is planned not to cause any traffic problems as the partly built road is a new route running 2.5 kilometres through the countryside across the north of the city.
As the work continues on three bridges, an underpass and connections to the EN125 at each end, the small, local roads that have been affected by the construction process will be redone and again passable.
All this should be finished by the end of March next year and will provide a warm feeling of relief for drivers wishing to cross Faro but not by driving through the city.
Estradas de Portugal management reckons the new road will remove 20,000 vehicles per day that currently are having had to hack though the regional capital.
Big yellow diggers were in evidence this morning, two of them, and Faro Mayor Rogerio Bacalhau and MP Cristóvão Norte took full advantage of the activity for some rare ‘good news’ photo opportunities in the afternoon sunshine.
Today's show of two machines and four men are said by the company to be the vanguard of a larger force that will be on site by the end of the week to crack on with this project which will remove one of the worst traffic congestion points in the region, made worse as a result of the imposition of tolls on the Algarve's Via do Infante motorway.
