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The Port of Leixões (Portuguese: Porto de Leixões, pronounced [lɐjˈʃõjʃ]) is one of Portugal's major seaports, located 4 km north of the mouth of the Douro River, in Matosinhos municipality, near the city of Porto. Leixões Sport Club, commonly known simply as Leixões, is Matosinhos' sports club.
The Porto Metro (Portuguese: Metro do Porto) is a light rail network in Porto, Portugal and a key part of the city's public transport system. [3] Having a semi-metro alignment, it runs underground in central Porto and above ground into the city's suburbs while using low-floor tram vehicles.
STCP does not operate the city's light rail system, Porto Metro, but owns 25% of it. [2] It is a public company controlled by a board responsible to the central government [2] and had about 1,500 employees in 2009. [1] STCP operates 83 bus routes – of which 11 are late-night-only routes – and the bus service covers 539 km of routes. [1]
A fifth line was inaugurated in September 2009, Leixões line, connecting Porto to Leixões. [7] This line closed again in 2011. In 2018, a study was launched into a new 36.5 km rail line branching from Valongo on the Linha de Caide to Felgueiras, with an expectedly cost of €300 million.
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[2] [3] Passenger services ran until 1987 and from 2009 to 2011, otherwise the railway has remained open for cargo, transporting cargo in and out of the Port of Leixões. In 2024, a 32 million Euro investment was carried out to improve conditions on the line for freight trains and to reestablish passenger services in part of the line.
STCP, the main bus provider in Porto municipality remains separate from this network and provides services between Matosinhos and Porto. [20] A railway line exists connecting the Port of Leixões with Contumil in Porto, called Linha de leixões. This line has mainly been used to transport cargo, despite an attempt to run passenger services in 2011.
In 1972, Brisa was to construct 390 km (242 mi) of roadways by the end of 1981. The first priority was a highway designated as A1, a 300 km (186 mi) stretch reaching from the capital of Lisbon north to Porto, Portugal's second-largest city. This highway would become a crucial link to the industrial activity in the north of the country and ...