Metro do Porto President Tiago Braga acknowledged on Tuesday that the end of 2026 is a critical deadline for the construction of the Rubi line, noting that up to 16 work lines will be involved in the project.
“Three years is a busy period of time, which we know is demanding, we have never hidden it. We are talking about three kilometers of tunnel and bridge,” Thiago Braga admitted to reporters in Vila Nova de Gaia (Porto district) on Tuesday. ).
The head of Metro do Porto spoke to reporters after the handover ceremony of the contract for the Rubi line (Casa da Música – Santo Ovídio), which took place today in the Caves of Ferreira, in Gaia, in honor of the name of the future integrated bridge over Porto. The Douro River on the line that will bear the name of Doña Antonia Ferreira, “Ferreirinha”.
“This project is very, very complex, involves many specialties, has many problems,” he stressed, emphasizing that “there is no project in Portugal with such a time frame”, also referring to the bureaucratic procedures already overcome before the delivery stage.
According to Thiago Braga, if Metro do Porto still meets the deadlines, “there is nothing that would make us suspect that from now on there will not be the same level of competence”, even saying that the work will be marked “World History of Civil Engineering” .
The person in charge emphasized that up to 16 work fronts could be opened for the construction of the Rubi line, with “the intensity of the occupation increasing.”
“We know that Saint Ovid [em Gaia] is fundamental”, Tiago Braga also notes that “on the Porto side, the parking lot where the Campo Alegre station will be installed is also a front that must be put into operation immediately.”
Structures for the work will be assembled “in the next few days,” likely starting next week, as the contractor submits a plan to “attack” the ground within the next 10 days.
For Tiago Braga, building the Rubi line is a task “bigger and more complex than three [empreitadas] already underway” in Metro do Porto: extension of the Yellow Line, construction of the Pink Line and the Boavista Metrobus.
In his speech, Thiago Braga already emphasized the networked nature of the Rubi line, saying that it will contribute to “network effects on other modes of transport”, providing connections to the train, both at Devesas (Gaia) station and at Devesas (Gaia) station. Northern line, as well as a future high-speed station in Santo Ovidio.
The terminus stations of Santo Ovidio and Casa da Musica transform the Rubi line into a “ring line, a high-frequency service ring that will function as a distribution hub for customers coming from the networks with the greatest capillarity, be it highways or the company itself. “Metro system”.
The Rubi Line is expected to provide an increase in the number of Metro do Porto customers by 12 million per year, as well as an annual reduction of carbon dioxide emissions of 17.5 tons.
On December 20, the Court of Auditors provisionally approved the contract for the construction of the Rubi line of the Porto metro worth 379.5 million euros, a company source told Lusa.
The contract for the construction of the Rubi line of the Porto metro was signed with the consortium of Alberto Couto Alves (ACA), FCC Construcción and Contratas y Ventas on November 3, worth more than 379.5 million euros.
The global investment cost of the Rubi Line (Casa da Música – Santo Ovidio, including the new bridge over the Douro River) is $435 million, an investment financed through the Plan for Recovery and Resilience (PRR).
The Rubi Line, 6.4 km long and with eight stations, includes a new crossing over the Douro River, “Ponte D. Antonia Ferreira, Ferreirinha”, which will be dedicated exclusively to the metro, as well as pedestrian and bicycle traffic.
In Gaia, stations planned for the Rubi line are Santo Ovidio, Soares dos Reis, Deveshas, Rotonda, Candal and Arrábida, as well as in Porto Campo Alegre and Casa da Musica.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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