Government approves 420 million to take Metro from Porto to Gondomar and Trofa

“ O Government approved today the realization, the investment, on two lines of the Porto Metro system ", announced today António Leitão Amaro in the 'briefing' after the Council of Ministers, referring to the new metro lines for Gondomar and metro and metrobus for the Trofa.

“In the Trofa line, there are 184 million euros, which will serve the municipalities of Maia and Trofa, with 10 kilometers, nine stations, in the section between ISMAI, Maia and Paradela and the interface of Trofa”, said the minister, stressing that there will be “an even bigger investment in the Gondomar line”, of 287 million euros, both being “to carry out from next year and until 2031”.

The new line of Gondomar “will be between the Dragon and Souto Stadium in Gondomar”, having “seven kilometers and nine seasons”.

“ Among these two measures, there are about 420 million euros in the Porto Metropolitan Area, to expand the Porto Metro, to allow the Portuguese, the citizens who live in that region, to have this solution of collective transport, comfortable and to serve a very significant population dimension ", highlighted the ruler.

Also present at the ‘briefing’, Environment and Energy Minister Maria da Graça Carvalho added that this funding will be “secure largely by the Environmental Fund, and another part by Sustainable 2030, which is from the Cohesion Fund” of the European Union.

“ It is often not understood where the Government applies the Environmental Fund. Exactly, it's to mitigate. It is a fund that comes from the carbon rate to reduce emissions in the sectors that most produce these emissions,” he explained.

Maria da Graça Carvalho pointed out that “unfortunately, in Portugal, it is still the transport sector that has the most CO2 emissions [carbon dioxide], and that is where more than half of the Environmental Fund, which is about EUR 1,000 million per year, is applied.”.

[News updated at 5:47 p.m.]