this incoming gestures Portugal to speed up high speed connection between Galicia and Porto They continue to increase in density. Two months after Portuguese Infrastructure Minister Pedro Nuno Santos called on the Spanish government to “put the ropes on the shoe” on the issue, it is the Prime Minister who is now talking about this long-awaited route.
At a luncheon attended by 200 businessmen from both Iberian countries, Anthony Costa reminded him of his country. you have already defined a priority row With the Lisbon-Oporto-Galicia axis. This spine route of the Atlantic Axis will begin its work in 2025. Time improvements in 2030halve existing ones.
However, he points out that there is still a pending debate on the “best way to connect this axis to the entire network”. The priority of the Spanish government has always been the Madrid-Extremadura-Lisbon line, which, according to European Union criteria, must be completed by the end of this decade.
After it was acknowledged that the high-speed train had become a “taboo subject” in the country due to numerous unsuccessful attempts, the debate was re-discussed with the second cross-border connection.
“We will meet with the Spanish Government. ANDthe issue is not how to get to Madrid, but how to get to any point on the network. The high speed of the Iberian Peninsula”, was stated.
I might want to go to Madrid, like going to Barcelona, Valencia or Seville. Spain is beautiful, not just MadridUpon Efe’s question about a possible high-speed train connection project between the two countries, he continued as follows:
It therefore reduces the urgency for connectivity via Badajoz and Elvas, where Infraestruturas de Portugal will open the first 90 kilometers of its high-speed network next year.
In this way, the country “either stays out or stays in”. When I say network, it is network“, the Prime Minister said in his speech at the business dinner.
As the president of Administração dos Portos do Douro, Leixões e Viana do Castelo, Nuno Araujo has announced, the centuries-old traditional connection between Aveiro and Salamanca is also one of its priorities.
Cross-border summits and services
In recent annual bilateral summits, rail links have been a recurring theme. During A Guarda in 2019, a commitment was made to reactivate the route between Galicia and the north of Portugal. twenty years of failed attempts.
In this way, he thinks the next Spanish-Portuguese meeting in the Minho region in the autumn will be key to addressing the issue with the Spanish Government.
The only rail link in existence between Lisbon and Madrid was the Lusitania, a night train that connects both capitals in 10 hours and whose service was interrupted in March 2020 due to the restrictions of the coronavirus pandemic and has not been restarted since. doubts about its profitability.
The Celtic Train between Vigo and Porto is experiencing a glorious period by reducing its prices to 5 Euros thanks to the cooperation between Comboios de Portugal and Renfe. Even the start of the rail strike in the neighboring country did not prevent it from circulating in binary composition this weekend.