The constraints on pedestrian and road traffic in Porto due to the works of the Rosa Line were “overtaken” in time of São João, remaining only seals to the mouths of access to the stations, today ensured source of the Metro of Porto.
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23/06/2026
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ANDin response to Lusa, the company ensured that the promise made on 9 January by its president, Emídio Gomes, was fulfilled, in a visit with the mayor of Porto, Pedro Duarte, to one of the tunnels under construction of the Rosa Line, in which it undertook to solve all the surface impediments related to the work of this line until the celebrations of São João.
“ The construction areas around the new stations Casa da Música, Galicia, Hospital Santo António and São Bento are free from the surface work, with the consequent reopening of pedestrian and road roads and their public spaces. Only the mouths of access to these stations remain sealed, of course and until the time of operation of this line ", specified the Metro Porto à Lusa.
The Rosa Line of Porto Metro, which will connect São Bento to Casa da Música, will be operational until March 2027, announced Emídio Gomes in January.
Asked today, in the margins of the presentation of the project of a new pedestrian bridge linking Porto to Vila Nova de Gaia, the mayor of Porto, Pedro Duarte, praised the “great advances” that have been made in recent days.
“ I'm going to get out of here and I'm just going to confirm that [if there's no more surface work]. I even agreed with the president of Metro so that we could make this circuit and the information that is coming to me is that, since the last hours, there has already been significant progress”, he shared.
Pedro Duarte stressed that there will continue to be “limitations” due to the entrance mouths to the stations, but that the road network “will be all clean”.
“ Finally, after many and many years, the city of Porto will have another face already during this night of São João ", considered.
Also “in time for the feasts of St. John”, the House of Porto announced today that it had completed the requalification of the Rua da Galeria de Paris, which is in the downtown of the city and had been in works for seven months.

