News and developments from Porto, Portugal's second city.
Decree-Law 195-A/2026 extends the 20-euro monthly Passe Ferroviário Verde to CP's urban trains and the Fertagus concession from 26 September. CP sets the start date.
Porto's council votes on Tuesday to start revising its tourist tax. The proposal names no figure, but Pedro Duarte has said 4 euros a night, up from 3. The tax raised 32.3 million euros in 2025, up 54.5 percent.
Mayor Pedro Duarte says the city now offers a bed, showers, clean clothes and breakfast, and will be "relentless" with anyone who degrades public space. If the shelter works, he plans more in other parts of Porto.
ULS São João's community prescribing pilot starts in three family health units. Doctors refer stable adult patients to local exercise, cooking, culture and social activities through the same system used for medicines and tests, with council teams finding the programmes.
The Council of Ministers approved 237 million euros for a seven-kilometre line from the Estádio do Dragão to Souto and 184 million for a metro and metrobus link from Maia to Trofa. Coimbra's Mondego metrobus rises to 66 million euros and five more vehicles.
The ministry had promised the Passe Ferroviário Verde on CP's urban lines between 16 and 22 September. The decree is still awaiting promulgation, the minister now says October, and the Setúbal line has no firm date.
The PSP counted 27 infractions in the lorry ban's first 48 hours on the VCI, Pedro Duarte says a new parking policy lands before the year is out, and both mosque-site auctions went deserted. Plus five runners still in hospital, a fire on the Aliados and tonight's clássico.
