Dória affirms license for Santos bridge will be released in 8 months

The Governor of São Paulo, João Dória (PSDB) said yesterday (June 24), during the opening of Porto & Mar – The Tribune for the Development of the Port of Santos Seminar, that the government hopes to complete the environmental licensing in the next eight months for work on the bridge that will link the two banks of the Port of Santos.

The work has been awaited for at least 90 years. “The bridge project is ready, and we will get the environmental license within eight months and the concession holder for Rodovia dos Imigrantes has agreed to invest. Without public money, with private investment, making it a first-world construction, efficiently and quickly” said the governor.

According to Doria, the R$3bn to be invested will be funded fully by private initiative.

The project

As previously reported, the proposal presented by Ecovias, concessionaire that manages the Anchieta-Imigrantes System, the bridge will be about 7.5km long, starting at the entrance of Santos, at km 64 of Via Anchieta, and ending next to the access to Barnabé Island, in the Continental Area of Santos, about 500 meters from the toll plaza of Guarujá, at km 250 of the Canne Domênico Rangoni Highway.

The main span of the bridge will be 85 meters high and 325 meters wide between the pillars. These measurements are requirements from the State Government to keep the Metropolitan Airport of Baixada Santista (Santos Air Base) activities operable and not to impact port operations.

Challenges

The Docks Company of the State of São Paulo (Codesp) and the Port Authority Council (CAP) of Santos have already positioned themselves against the bridge but the governor is hoping for an agreement so that the marine complex is not harmed by the project.

“Nothing contradicts the future execution of the tunnel. The bridge does not make the tunnel unusable. Prestes Maia, 90 years ago, foresaw three links. It is quite possible that, following the bridge, the tunnel will become viable. What cannot happen is the delay of the construction of the bridge, even more so with this work now approved“, said the governor of the State.

Source: A Tribuna

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