Construction of Porto-Lisbon High-Speed Railway Can Finally Begin

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The Portuguese Environmental Agency has considered that the project for the implementation of the future high-speed railway line between Porto and Gaia is in conformity with the previously issued Declaration of Environmental Impact (DIA), giving ‘green light to the undertaking. It is understood that, overall, the environmental conformity of the project for the implementation with the DIA is verified, can be read in the Title Único Ambiente (TUA)…

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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

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Implementation project submitted by the AVAN North consortium was approved, after the initial amendments that it intended to have been pushed: there will only be one bridge over the Douro river that will be used simultaneously for the railway and for the highway and the Gaia station will be underground.

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The high-speed rail line between Porto and Gaia receives the green light from the APA, maintaining the projected 1 hour 15 minute travel time between Porto and Lisbon starting in 2032. The Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) this week gave the green light to the project for the future high-speed rail line between Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia. The agency considered that the project fully meets the requirements of the Environmental Impact Statement…

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In December, the APA rejected the changes that the AVAN Norte consortium wanted to make to the high-speed rail line. The high-speed line is expected to connect Porto and Lisbon in one hour and 15 minutes by 2032.