Metro do Porto has carried more than one billion passengers since the opening of the first line 21 years ago, already surpassing the “annual demand record” this year with more than 72 million users.
In a statement on its official page, Metro do Porto highlights the 21 years of operation of the system and the opening on December 7, 2002 of the section of the Blue Line that operated between Trindade and Senhor de Matosinhos stations.
From the opening of the first construction site in Campania in 1999 to the opening of the VC Fashion Outlet – Modivas station, the last one created in 2017, the network extended over 67 kilometers and included 82 stations.
Five more lines (red, green, yellow, purple and orange) were added to the blue line, and the municipalities of Vila Nova de Gaia, Maia, Gondomar, Vila do Conde and Povoa do were added to Porto and Matosinhos -Varzin.
Since then, 1,031 million checks have been recorded and more than 133 million kilometers traveled, equivalent to 3,325 complete circles around planet Earth.
In these 21 years, Metro do Porto also celebrates “remarkable environmental achievements”: an annual reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of 55 thousand tons, more than 200 thousand square meters of green space and more than five thousand trees planted as part of re-qualification. works as an addition to the network.
This year “the annual demand record has already been broken.” [de 2019]and more than 72 million people travel by metro vehicles,” the company said.
“But if these 21 years fill us with satisfaction with the results achieved, then our focus will be on the future,” says Metro do Porto, marking the end of the contract to extend the yellow line between Santo Ovidio and Vila. d’ This is at the end of this year and the completion of the Pink line in 2024.
Metro do Porto also announces the start of construction work on the Rubi line, which will connect Casa da Música and Santo Ovidio and includes the construction of a new bridge over the Douro River and the opening of a metrobus between Boavista and Plaza Imperia. and Anemone Rotunda.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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