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Mobility & Transport Fund Loads €14.8 Million Across Eight Buckets for Late-May Launch — Bilhética Nacional, Mobilidade Escolar and Taxi Decarbonisation Lead the 2026 Envelope, Up €4.2 Million on 2025

Mobility & Transport Fund Loads €14.8 Million Across Eight Buckets for Late-May Launch — Bilhética Nacional, Mobilidade Escolar and Taxi Decarbonisation Lead the 2026 Envelope, Up €4.2 Million on 2025

Miguel Pinto Luz has approved €14.8 million across eight Fundo para a Mobilidade e Transportes lines for 2026 — €2.7M for bilhética nacional, €3M for stop reconstruction outside Lisbon and Porto, and €700,000 for taxi decarbonisation, with avisos opening late May.
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Túnel do Marão Closes Its First Decade With 45 Million Vehicle Crossings — A4 Daily Average Climbs From 9,590 in Pandemic-Hit 2020 to 17,560 in 2025 as the Toll-Free Reset Lands Its Full Year

Túnel do Marão Closes Its First Decade With 45 Million Vehicle Crossings — A4 Daily Average Climbs From 9,590 in Pandemic-Hit 2020 to 17,560 in 2025 as the Toll-Free Reset Lands Its Full Year

Infraestruturas de Portugal marks the Túnel do Marão's tenth anniversary with 45 million cumulative crossings. The 5.6 km Iberian record-holder anchors the A4 Vila Real–Amarante stretch, with daily traffic up from 9,590 in 2020 to 17,560 in 2025 after the January 2025 toll elimination.
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Transtejo Soflusa Will Open a Direct Seixal–Barreiro Electric-Ferry Run From June 2026 — Weekends First, Then Weekdays, on Top of the 100% Electric Seixal–Cais do Sodré Spine That Has Already Saved 1.74 Million Litres of Diesel

Transtejo Soflusa Will Open a Direct Seixal–Barreiro Electric-Ferry Run From June 2026 — Weekends First, Then Weekdays, on Top of the 100% Electric Seixal–Cais do Sodré Spine That Has Already Saved 1.74 Million Litres of Diesel

Minister Miguel Pinto Luz confirmed Transtejo Soflusa will open a Seixal–Barreiro fluvial connection in June 2026 — weekends first, weekdays to follow. The new line plugs into a 10-vessel electric fleet that has carried 2 million passengers and saved 1.74 million litres of diesel a year.
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MAI Books €36 Million for SIRESP With 33 Working-Group Recommendations and an 18-Month Timeline — Internal Administration's Luís Neves Pitches Energy Autonomy and Redundancies After the April 2025 Blackout and the Storm Kristin Centro Outage

MAI Books €36 Million for SIRESP With 33 Working-Group Recommendations and an 18-Month Timeline — Internal Administration's Luís Neves Pitches Energy Autonomy and Redundancies After the April 2025 Blackout and the Storm Kristin Centro Outage

MAI booked roughly €36 million on Tuesday to strengthen SIRESP, Portugal's emergency-communications backbone, with 33 working-group recommendations and an 18-month implementation timeline aimed at the energy and redundancy gaps exposed by the April 2025 blackout and Storm Kristin's Centro outage.
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Porto's Assembleia Municipal Approves Free Public Transport for the City's 252,687 Residents — €20.5 Million-a-Year Cartão Porto Will Cover the Whole Andante Network From January 2027, With a Pedro Duarte Push to Pull the Start Forward to This Summer

Porto's Assembleia Municipal Approves Free Public Transport for the City's 252,687 Residents — €20.5 Million-a-Year Cartão Porto Will Cover the Whole Andante Network From January 2027, With a Pedro Duarte Push to Pull the Start Forward to This Summer

Porto's Assembleia Municipal voted Monday night to make public transport free for the city's 252,687 residents — a €20.5 million-a-year Cartão Porto scheme covering the entire Andante network. Legal start: 1 January 2027. Câmara president Pedro Duarte is pushing for a summer 2026 rollout.
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