The government will build a covered elevated walkway system in Coloane’s Seac Pai Van public housing neighbourhood, the Public Works Bureau (DSOP) announced on its website on Wednesday.
Wednesday’s announcement came after the government announced in January this year its plan to build a 188-metre-long covered elevated walkway connecting the public housing neighbourhood and the recreational area along the Seac Pai Van reservoir.
The recreational area along the Seac Pai Van reservoir is officially known as Seac Pai Van Urban Park.
The elevated walkway system announced on Wednesday will comprise three sections, with a total length of 485 metres.
According to the DSOP website, the 188-metre-long elevated walkway announced early this year 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.
The bureau has commissioned an architecture company to carry out the design of the 188-metre-long elevated walkway project for a price tag of 1.72 million patacas.
According to the DSOP website, the bureau invited five architecture companies to bid for the 485-metre-long elevated walkway project’s design, all of whom submitted their respective bids, which were unsealed by DSOP officials last month.
However, according to the website, only three of the five bids were accepted.
The quotations proposed by the three accepted bidders are 1.25 million patacas, 1.438 million patacas, and 2.126 million patacas.
According to Wednesday’s announcement, the 485-metre-long elevated walkway system comprising three sections will link up three existing footbridges at three junctions in the Seac Pai Van public housing community, as well as connecting to the future 188-metre-long elevated walkway.
This map released by the Public Works Bureau (DSOP) on Wednesday shows its plan for the future 485-metre-long elevated walkway system comprising three sections (yellow) connecting three existing footbridges (blue) and the future 188-metre-long elevated walkway (pink) in Coloane’s Seac Pai Van public housing neighbourhood.
