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Cascais. First in Portugal - Free Public Transport

Cascais - Free Public Transport.

O Tribunal de Contas (Tdc) deu parecer positivo ao programa de transportes rodoviários gratuitos de Cascais, o primeiro concelho do país a avançar com um serviço gratuito de transportes a partir de janeiro de 2020, informou esta segunda-feira aquele município.

"O TdC deu hoje parecer positivo ao programa de mobilidade rodoviária gratuita no concelho de Cascais", revela em nota de imprensa a Câmara Municipal de Cascais, no distrito de Lisboa.

A partir de 1 de janeiro de 2020, Cascais torna-se no primeiro concelho do país a ter transportes públicos rodoviários gratuitos dentro do município.

"Estamos a abrir um novo paradigma, que encara a mobilidade como um pilar das sociedades democráticas avançadas e sustentáveis, como um direito que potencia valores como a liberdade, a coesão ou a sustentabilidade ambiental", afirmou o presidente da câmara, Carlos Carreiras (PSD), citado na mesma nota.

O autarca sublinhou que o programa vai "reduzir muitíssimo a pegada de carbono".

O programa de mobilidade rodoviária gratuita tem um custo de 12 milhões de euros anuais, suportados pelas receitas do estacionamento pago e a fixação no concelho de entidades bancárias de crédito, o que tem efeitos do ponto de vista da receita fiscal em sede de Imposto Único de Circulação, diz a autarquia.

"Não estamos a colocar a gratuitidade para todos à custa do esforço de impostos dos cidadãos. Pelo contrário: estamos a deixar mais dinheiro na carteira dos cidadãos que assim se libertam de um custo e têm mais recursos para poupança, investimento ou consumo", explicou Carlos Carreiras.

Durante o mês de janeiro, período de adaptação do programa, os transportes públicos rodoviários são gratuitos para todos os cidadãos, enquanto a partir de fevereiro apenas o são para residentes, estudantes e trabalhadores no concelho.

Para beneficiar do programa, é obrigatório fazer registo prévio na plataforma Mobi Cascais.

O serviço público de transportes vai introduzir também alterações na política de estacionamento, por forma a "adaptar-se à nova realidade metropolitana".

"Todos os munícipes registados na aplicação MobiCascais terão direito a 100 minutos de estacionamento gratuitos por dia (exceto nas zonas vermelhas e de acordo com o regulamento em vigor) e vai proceder-se a uma harmonização de horário de cobrança", esclarece a autarquia.

O horário pago de estacionamento para todo o concelho ficará limitado ao período entre as 09h00 e as 19h00, com exceção para as zonas de estacionamento controlado do concelho e com regulamento específico, previstas no regulamento geral.

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Beautiful Christmas Eve

Morning was breaking in Bethlehem. The star had just disappeared, the last pilgrim had left the stable. The Virgin had tucked in the Child in the straw and he was finally falling asleep. But does one sleep on Christmas night? The door opened, thrust open, it was said, by a breath more than by a hand, and a woman appeared on the threshold, covered with rags, so old and so wrinkled that in her earth-colored face her mouth seemed to be just another wrinkle. When she saw her, Mary was frightened, as if the woman was a bad fairy barging in. Fortunately, Jesus was asleep! The donkey and the ox chewed their straw peacefully and watched the stranger enter without surprise, as if they had known her all their life. The Virgin did not take her eyes off her. Each step she took seemed like an eternity. The old woman continued to walk forward, and now she was at the edge of the manger. Thank God, Jesus was still sleeping. But does one sleep on Christmas night? Suddenly he opened his eyes, and his mother was astonished to see that the eyes of the woman and those of her child looked exactly the same and shone with the same hope. The old woman then leaned over the straw, while her hand went to seek in the jumble of her rags something she seemed to take centuries to find. Mary was still looking at her worriedly. The beasts looked at her too, but still without curiosity, as if they knew in advance what would happen. Finally, at the end of a very long time, the old woman drew an object hidden in her hand from her clothes, and she handed it to the child. After all the treasures of the Magi and the offerings of the shepherds, what was this present? From where she was, Mary could not tell. She could only see the old woman’s back bent by age, bending even deeper as it leaned over the cradle. The donkey and the ox could see her but they still did not seem to wonder, as if they knew what was going to happen. This lasted a long time. Then the old woman straightened up, as if delivered from the heavy weight that was pulling her to the ground. Her shoulders were no longer vaulted, her head almost touched the thatched ceiling, her face looked miraculously younger. When she moved away from the manger to go back to the door and disappeared in the night from which she had come, Mary finally saw the mysterious present. Eve—since that is who she was—had just given the child a small apple, the apple of the first sin (and of so many others that followed). The little red apple shone in the hands of the newborn like the globe of the new world that had just been born with him.

Jérôme and Jean Tharaud From Tales of the Virgin (Les Contes de la Vierge), Plon publisher, 1940

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