Porto will have reinforced security and public transport on New Year’s Eve. The party in the city will take place on two stages, in the gardens of Palácio de Cristal and in Aliados, where fireworks will be launched.
On Avenida dos Aliados, in Porto, preparations for entry in 2025 are finalized. Contrary to what happened last year, the City Council building returns to the eight-minute stage of fire of artifice, a investment of 450 thousand euros.
Sare expected more than 100 thousand people. O I would even like to have more but it is possible due to works on the metro: “We still don’t have the Avenida dos Aliados that we wanted. If you notice, the placement of the stage isn’t exactly what we wanted, (…), so we have to live within the constraints that exist.”
They will be all over the city 250 Public Security Police (PSP) agents. O access to Allies it will be at the top south of the avenuetraditional bottles of sparkling wine will be allowed, but the PSP will be careful.
“The area will be completely fenced between Praça da Liberdade and the Aliados region. The police were set up to increase people’s agility in accessing the place, anyone who abuses alcohol we ask not to drive, and not to bring certain types of objects to the festivities area because, although there is no fixed search, there will be a search according to needs”, said superintendent Vítor Rodrigues, from the Porto PSP Metropolitan Command.
Because of the metro works and to prevent the crowd from concentrating downtown, the festivities are divided into two stages. In addition to the Allies, the Crystal Palace is once again on the New Year’s Eve itinerary.
Another concern is cleanliness, butmunicipality guarantees that on the first day of the new year, Porto will wake up with a clean face.
“It has been a point of honor for our municipal company, and here I leave a word to our workers who never stop, and who normally when we wake up we have all the glass clean. And we are talking about dozens of tons of glass that remain there [após a festa]”, concluded Mayor Rui Moreira.
O invitation is to go out on the street and leave the car at home especially because there will be several traffic restrictions. For security reasons, the Aliados metro station will be closed, there is reinforcement of public transport with extended opening hours and more vehicles.
The concerts start at 10pm. To welcome the new year take the stage of the Allies Rui Veloso, with the special participation of the group Canto Nono. In the Crystal Palace, the party is in charge of Branko.
Total strike on New Year’s Eve
Despite calls to go to the transport party, prepare for complications on the subway. THE in the operation of the Porto Metro on December 31st and January 1st, demanding payment of the annual premium, not yet paid, to the operator ViaPorto, from the Barraqueiro group.
“Workers who on December 30, 2024 have scheduled a normal working period that exceeds 00:00 on December 31, 2024, are on strike from the scheduled start time of their normal working period until its end “, and those who “on January 1, 2025 have scheduled a normal working period that exceeds 00:00 on January 2, 2025”, are also on strike until the end of their shift.
The alternative will be buses. In a statement sent to newsrooms, the STCP – Sociedade de Transportes Colectivos do Porto informs that it has “prepared a special operation”starting at 9pm on December 31st and until around 5:30am the following day.
This special operation includes the 12 row reinforcement – 200, 201, 501, 600, 602, 700, 701, 702, 800, 903, 904 e 907 –between 9pm and 12:30amo reinforcement of nine lines of the STCP Madrugada Network – 1M, 4M, 5M, 7M, 8M, 9M, 10M, 12M and 13M – from 00:30 until 5:30.
On the day January 1, 2025Wednesday, the STCP network will operate in accordance with the Usual opening times for “Sundays and holidays”.
