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MAN A39 double-deck bus on route 500 in Porto, Portugal. Double-decker buses were introduced in Portugal during the 1950s when buses in general started to be used in the main cities such as Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra and Setúbal. The types used were the AEC Regent and later the Daimler Fleetline and the Leyland Atlantean, with Portuguese-built bodies.
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]
[3]: 45–47 By July 1978, only four routes remained: 1, 3, 18 and 19. Route 3 (Boavista – Pereiró) closed on 30 April 1984. For almost 10 more years, the three remaining routes continued in operation without any closures, as routes 1 (Infante – Matosinhos), 18 (Carmo – Castelo do Queijo – Boavista) and 19 (Boavista – Matosinhos).
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The airport, known outside the region as Porto Airport, is the second-busiest international airport in Portugal, moving over 9.3 million passengers in 2016. By car or taxi, it is quickly accessible (17 minutes) via the A28 motorway, linked to the A41 motorway and the airport's drop-off and pick-up areas, or the EN13 highway, the latter using ...
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.
The system is complemented in Lisbon by the Lisbon Metro and an extensive bus network. Lisbon rail lines overview, with CP, Fertagus and Lisbon Metro (filled light gray) lines. It comprises four lines [4] which served 103 million passengers in 2019. Azambuja line: connects Azambuja and Castanheira do Ribatejo to Alcântara-Terra and Santa Apolónia
The Porto Tram Museum (Museu do Carro Eléctrico) is a museum operated by the Sociedade de Transportes Colectivos do Porto. It was inaugurated in 1992 and is installed in a former thermoelectric power station next to the River Douro in Massarelos, Porto, Portugal. [1] It exhibits material related to the history of trams in Porto. The collection ...