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Aeroporto is a light rail station on the Porto Metro system in the municipality of Maia, Portugal. It was built to serve Porto Airport, and is situated immediately outside the main terminal of that airport. The station is the terminus of line E of the Metro, which provides a direct connection to the centre of the city of Porto. [1] [2]
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.
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. [8]
São Bento is an underground light rail station on line D of the Porto Metro system in Porto, Portugal.It is situated in front of the São Bento railway station, one of Porto's main railway stations, from which it takes its name.
Rail transport in Portugal is provided mainly by Comboios de Portugal (CP), Portugal's national carrier, but also other operators. It includes high speed trains and rapid transit networks in Lisbon and Porto. Portugal is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The UIC Country Code for Portugal is 94.
São Bento is the main terminus of Porto's suburban railways lines and western terminus for the scenic Douro line between Porto and Pocinho. The station for trains arriving from Lisbon is the Campanhã (the national railway station) but there is subsequent service to São Bento via a local train. [3]
In 2015, a new long-term strategy for Portugal's railway network was announced; it called for the full electrification of the network, along with the provision of European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) signaling and control apparatus, infrastructure compliance with the relevant European standards along all of the main freight corridors ...
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]