Line that connects Matosinhos, Maia, Porto and even the district of Aveiro opened this Sunday, makes São João-Panhã in 11 minutes and will “unclog” the yellow line.
There are 60 trains, 30 per direction, 2 every hour in the end hours. The stations are not many, but allow you to go to ovar to the hospital of St. John in 1h05, directly (which may be useful in particular to students of the university hub).
The reopening, this Sunday, from the line of trains of Leixões allows not only to go to the same vehicle from Leça do Balio, in Matosinhos, to Espinho or Ovar, but also to go from train Campanhã to São Joãowithout the need for metro (where there must also be line change) taking between 11 and 18 minutes, depending on the time.
The line does not only the path Leça do Balio – Ovar, without transhipment, but also directly calls Leça from Balio to Campanhã. It works from 5:40 am to 10:41 pm.
There are still appetizers in Belchem Saint Gemil and in São Mamede Infestaallowing to follow directly from Matosinhos to Maia. The service, operated by CP, works with walking dotade.
A, Sérgio Meireles, one of the passengers, praises the project, which recovers the line that had existed 11 years ago and closed in the meantime. ”If it is for people to leave the car at home, one has to create an incentive. AND The incentive is not to close lines, it is reopening lines“He comments.
And even those who are happy with the reopening, such as passenger João Pereira, leaves suggestions. “This train could go to Ermesinde And there have the great intermodality as they stop there trains of the Minho line, stop there trains of the Douro line, having a greater offer to him and who comes from Ovar, ”he says.
According to the vice-mayor of the Matosinhos Chamber, Carlos Mouta, It wants to extend this line even more, leading it to the Port of Leixões, where it passes the Blue Metro line, “the STCP and Unir buses. And even the very lines of the Expresses and Flixbus coming from the north can have a stop there before the Campanhã terminal, ”suggests the mayor.
The President of Transportes Metropolitanos do Porto and former President of the Chamber of Gondomar, Marco Martins, ensures that “this will Solve the clog of the yellow line of the metro because it plays in two points: in General Torres and at the hospital of S. João. And now, between these two points, the train is faster than the meter, helping to decongest the line. ”
The former post-author also wants to extend this line to Rio Tinto, to the career zone, in which “20,000 people live within a kilometer radius”, and would also benefit from being directly linked to Matosinhos.
