The government will build a covered elevated walkway connecting Coloane’s Seac Pai Van public housing neighbourhood and the recreational area along the Seac Pai Van reservoir, the Public Works Bureau (DSOP) announced on its website yesterday.
The recreational area along the Seac Pai Van reservoir, officially known as Seac Pai Van Urban Park, came into use in October 2021.
The reservoir’s recreational area enables pedestrians to walk between the new Macao Union Hospital complex in south Cotai and near the Seac Pai Van public housing community.
According to the website, the 188-metre-long elevated walkway will run along a section of the residential community’s Avenida de Ip Heng. The walkway will run between near Block 3 and Block 6 of Ip Heng Building and a section of the pavement in Estrada do Altinho de Ká Hó, where it is just a stone’s throw from Seac Pai Van Urban Park.
Ip Heng Building is a subsidised home-ownership scheme (HOS) estate comprising 10 blocks in the Seac Pai Van public housing neighbourhood, which comprises three HOS estates and one social rental housing estate.
According to the website, there will be a total of seven access points to the elevated walkway.
The bureau invited five architecture companies to bid for the project’s design, and four of them submitted their respective bids, which were unsealed by DSOP officials on Wednesday last week, according to the website.
The quotations for the design proposed by the four bidders range from 1.72 million patacas to 2.76 million patacas.
The future elevated walkway will make it easier for residents to walk between the sprawling public housing community and its nearby reservoir recreational area.
Construction of covered elevated walkways is one of the current government’s transport policies aiming to create a more friendly walking environment.
A boy plays on a playground slide at Seac Pai Van Urban Park’s southern side on New Year’s Day where Macao Water’s Seac Pai Van Water Treatment Plant is located, from where it takes around five minutes to walk to the Seac Pai Van public housing community. – Photo: Tony Wong
