The CFP today demanded the Government to requalify and duplicate the Main Route 3 (IP3), between Coimbra and Viseu, without tolls, and stressed that a political option of a contrary nature collides with the interests of the region and the populations.
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18/09/2026
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Lusa
“ Na framework of deepening injustices and the brutal increase in the cost of life, the statements of the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Miguel Pinto Luz, admitting the introduction of tolls in IP3 after completion of the ongoing requalification works, reveal a political option that the CFP rejects and that collides with the interests of the region and the populations ", said the communists in press note.
In the statement sent today to the Lusa agency, the regional organizations of Coimbra and Viseu of the PCP recalled that according to the State Budget Act in force in 2026 “the government develops the procedures necessary for the integral requalification and duplication of IP3, ensuring that the route remains without any toll”.
This standard is the result of a proposal for an amendment tabled by the CFP to the State Budget for 2026, which was put forward in the note.
“What is now required of the Government is to comply with the State Budget Act for 2026, implement the necessary procedures, ensure financing, timing and execution of works, and respect the determination that IP3 remains without any tolls.”.
The two Communist regional directions refused that an essential public work be transformed “in a business of some at the expense of the populations and companies”.
“IP3 is a structuring pathway, successively postponed for decades and without viable alternatives. Requalification and duplication of IP3 are not a concession to the population: they are a responsibility of the State, a requirement for road safety and a necessary condition for the economic and social development of the region”.
On the other hand, “it also makes no sense to invoke territorial cohesion and, at the same time, to accept a solution that would add permanent costs to workers’ movements, families, small and medium-sized entrepreneurs and freight transport between the coast and the interior”.
For the CFP, territorial cohesion requires public investment and safe and free accessibility, not the transfer of the cost of this investment to those who are obliged to use the route daily.