APA validates high-speed line design between Porto and Gaia
The high-speed line should connect Porto and Lisbon in an hour and 15 minutes in 2032, with possible stops in Gaia, Aveiro, Coimbra and Leiria, and the route
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The high-speed line should connect Porto and Lisbon in an hour and 15 minutes in 2032, with possible stops in Gaia, Aveiro, Coimbra and Leiria, and the Porto-Vigo route (via Porto airport, Braga, Ponte de Lima and Valença) in 50 minutes in 2032. On July 29, 2025, the Infrastructures of Portugal (IP) and the consortium LusoLav (Mota-Engil, Teixeira Duarte, Alves Ribeiro, Casais, Conduril and Gabriel Couto) signed the concession contract for the high speed line between Campanhã (Porto) and Oiã (Aveiro) and presented the financing agreement. However, in December 2025, the APA failed the amendments that the AVAN consortium North wanted to do the high-speed line.
Furthermore, Thus, and according to this decision dated Monday, the APA proposed "the issuing of environmental compliance decision to subtroces 4 and 5 [of the Porto-Oiã section], conditional on compliance with the terms and conditions imposed" in the TUA. The APA stated, in its decision to fail the relocation of the station from Gaia de Santo Ovidio to Vilar do Paraíso, that it would be "in a peripheral zone" without "intermodality with other means of public transport".
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The high-speed line should connect Porto and Lisbon in an hour and 15 minutes in 2032, with possible stops in Gaia, Aveiro, Coimbra and Leiria, and the Porto-Vigo route (via Porto airport, Braga, Ponte de Lima and Valença) in 50 minutes in 2032.
reliability low1/5 sourcesOn July 29, 2025, the Infrastructures of Portugal (IP) and the consortium LusoLav (Mota-Engil, Teixeira Duarte, Alves Ribeiro, Casais, Conduril and Gabriel Couto) signed the concession contract for the high speed line between Campanhã (Porto) and Oiã (Aveiro) and presented the financing agreement.
reliability low1/5 sourcesHowever, in December 2025, the APA failed the amendments that the AVAN consortium North wanted to do the high-speed line.
reliability low1/5 sourcesThus, and according to this decision dated Monday, the APA proposed "the issuing of environmental compliance decision to subtroces 4 and 5 [of the Porto-Oiã section], conditional on compliance with the terms and conditions imposed" in the TUA.
reliability low1/5 sourcesThe APA stated, in its decision to fail the relocation of the station from Gaia de Santo Ovidio to Vilar do Paraíso, that it would be "in a peripheral zone" without "intermodality with other means of public transport".
reliability low1/5 sources
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