HE Between High Speed Train Lisbon And vigo Despite last year’s progress, it continues at different speeds. While the Portuguese Government put out tender this Friday, the first section of 71 kilometers Port And Aveiro For 2,140 million euros; deadlines between rivers Douro And I’m no they expand. During the presentation of this action at the Portuguese Infrastructure headquarters in Pragal, Carlos Fernandes, deputy head of the railway director, announced that “in the coming weeks they will start updating the work between Braga and Valença”. It was carried out more than ten years ago. “Under normal circumstances, I think we have the possibility of starting this competition within 1-2 years,” he said.
However, with this timetable, work on the new High Speed line will not begin until “2027 or 2028,” meaning that, according to their criteria, “it would be unlikely to be completed by 2030.” This was stated at the conference “Transport and logistics networks on the Atlantic front” organized by the EEC and Eixo Atlantico in November 2013. Porrino Recent updates on the Costa manager’s initial plans have confirmed this. When this project is presented in September 2022, the project and implementation should start in mid-2026, but the Portuguese administration claims that the European Union does not require the project to be completed by 2040, hence the arrival of community funds.
The most important technical location of the IP reminded that the 68-kilometer line between two cities in the European Region represents the first stage of the entire line. In this way, for the next ten years the existing structure from Nine to Porto will be used until the second stop is developed. Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport. Fernandes reminded that on the Spanish side, the Informative Study on the Vigo Southern Railway Exit, which is the cornerstone of expanding the 150-kilometer section of the Southern Railway Exit, is already ongoing. Atlantic Axis from Coruña to Portugal. The importance of this section, where an investment of over 1,250 million Euros is expected, stems from the fact that it is a completely new route that will prevent deviations along the traditional line, with a maximum speed of 250 kilometers per hour. Viana do Castelo; thus allowing travel times to be reduced from the current 140 minutes to just over 60 minutes.
Meanwhile, the route between the neighboring country’s first two cities will use what Carlos Fernandes describes as a “rail highway”, using branches to connect to the cities and benefit from new sections as they open. According to calculations, up to 60 trains will be able to move in each direction per day and attract 16 million passengers a year, which will be “a bite” of the 120 passengers using this route by road.
According to the latest decision of the Portuguese Council of Ministers, the budget allocated to this infrastructure was increased by 33 percent last year, increasing the cost of the tender from 1.6 billion to a maximum of 2.14 billion dollars. Of this, 1,661,364,717.55 euros will be undertaken by the Government, while 480 million euros will come from the “Connecting Europe” Mechanism.
Political fight about the train
Meanwhile, this infrastructure continues to focus on the campaign before the March 10 general elections. mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas, described it as “incomprehensible” that the first AVE line in his country was not between Lisbon and Madrid. The politician from the Social Democratic Party thus answers the question of his predecessor and current Prime Minister: Antonio CostaHe assured this Friday that this election “corresponds to the vision of our region and strengthens our Atlantic Axis”, including Vigo and Galicia, which he considers “absolutely necessary for our competitiveness”.
“I always defended him and I did so with the president of the Madrid Community. Isabel Díaz Ayuso, connection Lisbon-Madrid; “It is unthinkable that we do not have two capitals of these sizes in neighboring countries,” he said. “This is a line that will create very important economic opportunities and I will fight for it,” he emphasized, noting that “it is common sense that this should be the first connection for the Portuguese and the Spanish.” Last May, the Lisbon leader backed Ayuso at the start of the regional election campaign.
The position of Carlos Moedas (Beja, 1970) strengthens the criticism from the right of the implementation of High Speed Rail in the neighboring country after a quarter of a century of unsuccessful attempts. PSD-CDS candidate, Louis Montenegro, His rival and former Costa Infrastructure Minister Pedro Nuno has threatened not to support the tender, which is one of Santos’ star projects. And the truth is that this person, who is still the leader of the socialists, has focused many times on creating a network that is not radio. “This link Lisbon-Porto-Braga-Vigo This is also absolutely fundamental in terms of the logic that we must have when entering the European network and of course the Iberian network,” explained Antonio Costa at the Portuguese Infrastructure headquarters yesterday. “We want to add our High Speed network to our entire Iberian network by joining Vigo, Barcelona or Valencia; and naturally to Madrid,” he added.