CCR ViaLagos administrates the 56-kilometer RJ-124 – Lagos Highway – connecting Rio Bonito to São Pedro da Aldeia, and running through Araruama and Iguaba Grande. The highway also provides access to Saquarema, Arraial do Cabo, Cabo Frio, and Armação dos Búzios, as well as Rio’s north coast and the cities of Barra de São João, Rio das Ostras, and Macaé.
With an average of 12,000 vehicles per day and peaks of 40,000 during the summer and on long weekend holidays, Lagos Highway is the best route between the capital and the Lakes Region, also called the Sun Coast, which is famous for its variety of beaches, lagoons and other natural attractions.
Since early 1997, CCR ViaLagos has administrated the new RJ-124 – Lagos Highway. The concession contract – which is the first in the Nation to be granted by a State – was signed in December 1996 and the concessionaire began its work the following year. The old RJ-124 was a simple two-lane road, covering 30 kilometers between Rio Bonito and Araruama and was known as the “Highway of Death”. ViaLagos widened this section and built another 26 kilometers to São Pedro da Aldeia, transforming it into the modern Lagos Highway.
Today, those who travel on the Lagos Highway have a well-marked and paved double highway, that is comfortable, safe and quick, and has 24-hour medical and mechanical assistance and other benefits. CCR ViaLagos brought into reality what had been merely a dream, before the concession was granted, for tourists, business people, hotel owners and residents of the region, where tourism is the major emphasis.