Brava: Mayor of Brava guarantees that car connection to Fajã d´Água will be resumed shortly

The mayor of Brava, Francisco Tavares, announced today that the car connection to Fajã d´Água will resume within a day or two.

The mayor made this announcement in statements to the press, after a meeting with residents of the locality of Fajã d´Água, which since 21 January has been isolated after a landslide that took part of the road.

According to the same source, the resumption of car connections will solve some issues in the community, such as restoring the normality of school transport for students, supplying trade, but also the issue that the lack of roads was restricting the number of visitors to Fajã d´Água and its economy was totally stagnant in the last two months due to the cut of the road.

“Ideal conditions will be created for you to have access by car to the locality and then work will continue to then have the road again with all the necessary features and safety to overcome the difficulties”, said the mayor.

As for the complaints about the absence of the machine on the ground, Francisco Tavares explained that in fact the machine was in the other part to try to gain access to the upper part where the landslide took place, in order to do all the cleaning and also the creation and treatment slopes to provide more security.

But, two months later, he pointed out that it was clear that there would not be a new landslide soon, so work began on filling the stream, recognizing the efforts of Estradas de Cabo Verde, the Government and the company that is carrying out the works, for resetting the car connection.

About the meeting with the residents, he considered it enlightening, stressing that there are some aspects that the population has to collaborate with, but what can be said is that Fajã d'Água's turn will come soon.

In this respect, he spoke of the project that unites the Tourism and Environment Fund which will be launched shortly, which includes a set of large interventions to transform this area into the rural tourist village of Brava and ends up resolving, almost completely, the demands of the population and give a different and transforming vision of this most attractive tourist spot on Brava.

He showed that the project will be presented with the presence of the Minister of Tourism, a project that will work on interventions on the seafront, the entire surroundings of the natural pools and vicinal paths that give access to the locality, interventions in people's homes so that everyone can pass the to have sanitation conditions, requalification of the square in homage to those who were shipwrecked on the ship Matilde, among other interventions that allow to present Fajã d´Água as a very attractive tourist village.

On the part of the residents, João da Luz explained that they summoned the mayor for this meeting because on the next 21st, it will be two months since the road has been closed, and as the machine every day presented itself in a place, they were totally without any concrete information. of what was going on, requiring a response from the competent authorities.

According to this resident, after the landslide, life in Fajã d´Água has not been easy, especially for small businesses that depended on visitors and are currently almost all closed, believing that they are experiencing some extreme needs, defending that the City Hall or Government should subsidize these people with some monetary value, as was done during the pandemic.

But he also complained that the town had been abandoned long before that episode, taking into account that the town had not been developed in any way, except for the access stairs to the natural pools and now they want something done to enhance the area considered a tourist zone.

Eugénia Tavares, another resident of Fajã d´Água, in a village a little further away, Esparadinha, stressed that there are several difficulties, because to leave the house and get to where the car can reach is a long way, she makes a purchase in Nova Sintra they have to pay a thousand escudos for transport, to carry it from the place where there is access by car to the Fajã d´Água area itself, they pay 200 escudos each way and from Fajã to Esparadinha another 300 escudos, a situation that has made it very difficult for them life these past two months.

Already, João Andrade is responsible for a bar and restaurant space in the town of Esparadinha that is “on the fly”, because according to the same source his establishment is a little far from where there is access to the road, which led to the stoppage of the business that it is the only means of income and sustenance for the family.

The announcement of the resumption of the car connection to the locality brought some “encouragement” to residents who hope for better days, but who do not give up thinking about another alternative route.