the-porto-brief

Heavy goods vehicles are barred from the Via de Cintura Interna from Tuesday, the council condemned nineteen trees on the Avenida dos Aliados, and Lusa read the 1.2 billion euro price tag inside Porto's ten-year mobility plan. Plus the Coliseu, Gaia's toll gantries and six wins from six.

Porto's ten-year mobility plan goes to a vote on Tuesday with a diagnosis that puts the cost of illegal parking at 100 million euros a year, the same meeting weighs a 4.98 million euro towing contract with a single bidder, and the mayor says shared scooters are a problem he means to shrink.

A Porto court suspends the contracts from the Bolhão's 14 July auction, Pedro Duarte says his anti-crime plan comes together by year's end, Matosinhos borrows €40 million to build 500 affordable-rent homes, and the metrobus reaches its Recovery Plan deadline on Monday.

Pedro Duarte asks the PSP to let the câmara hire officers for the Cândido dos Reis nightlife strip, Metro do Porto's 25-year-old Eurotrams lose their air conditioning above 35C, a €75 million Boavista tower swaps luxury flats for 249 mid-market homes, and the Book Fair fills the Palácio de Cristal.

Your first weekly roundup from the Invicta: FC Porto start the title defence with two 2-0 wins and top spot, the second phase of the Boavista metrobus races a 31 August deadline, Sá Carneiro airport keeps breaking passenger records, and the north stays cool while the interior burns.

Your weekly roundup from the Invicta: the government puts a €689.63M price tag on the next Metro do Porto contract, a second Douro ferry turns permanent, the Guindais funicular pauses for its safety paperwork, heavy lorries are barred from the VCI from September, and FC Porto beat Aston Villa before