Government expropriates area for the Metropolitan Ring Road.
The project is budgeted at R$ 1,21 billion and will be carried out by Odebrecht Transporte, in partnership with Queiroz Galvão and Iverpar. The ring road will be the third toll highway in Pernambuco.
PE247 – The State Government published this Thursday (31) a decree expropriating a strip of 868 hectares to enable the construction of the Metropolitan Ring Road, which aims to implement 77 kilometers of highway and will connect BR-101 North, in the municipality of Igarassu, in the Metropolitan Region of Recife (RMR), to BR-101 South, near the Dom Hélder Câmara Hospital, located in Cabo de Santo Agostinho, also in the RMR. The project is budgeted at R$ 1,21 billion and will be carried out by Odebrecht Transporte, in partnership with Queiroz Galvão and Iverpar.
The project is divided into three sections: North, West, and South. Information indicates that only the latter is currently operational and will be duplicated, including toll collection. This section will be 24 kilometers long and will connect BR-101, near the Dom Hélder Câmara Hospital, and BR-232. The other sections will only be duplicated if there is increasing traffic demand. The Metropolitan Ring Road will allow for faster truck freight transport in the Recife Metropolitan Region, relieving congestion on the federal highway.
An Environmental Impact Study/Environmental Impact Report (EIA/RIMA) for the Metropolitan Ring Road has already been prepared.check hereCurrently, the State Government, in partnership with the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, is evaluating studies on environmental impacts in order to implement the project.
The ring road will be the third toll highway in the state. The first was built by the Rota dos Coqueiros concessionaire, providing access to Reserva do Paiva, a planned neighborhood with 8,5 kilometers of paradisiacal beaches and 450 hectares of Atlantic Forest in the south of Greater Recife, as well as access to other beaches on the southern coast of Pernambuco. The second, the Via Expressa, is expected to begin operating in October of this year and aims to offer a new access system to the Suape Industrial Port Complex, also in the south of the Recife Metropolitan Region.