Public transport, infrastructure, and mobility in Portugal.
Infrastructure Minister Miguel Pinto Luz says a single pass valid across buses, metros and trains in the Lisbon and Porto metropolitan areas — together about 80% of national transport supply — could arrive by the end of 2026. The main hurdles are technical: reconciling different ticketing systems an
A parliamentary committee approved a revision of Portugal's TVDE ride-hailing law that would require drivers to speak Portuguese, let platforms record trips, and scrap the cap on dynamic surge pricing. The bill now heads to a final plenary vote.
Vehicles registered abroad avoided about €12 million in charges last year after Portugal removed tolls on interior and Algarve motorways — a cost the concessionaires' body says has shifted onto domestic taxpayers.
An Automóvel Club de Portugal survey finds 67% of Greater Lisbon residents prefer the car and 59% use one daily, even though the flat €30 Navegante pass has held for seven years — evidence that frequency and convenience, not price, keep the region on the road.
From Thursday, residents of Porto who hold the municipal Porto Card can ride the metro and buses across the metropolitan Andante network for free. Mayor Pedro Duarte launched the roughly 59,400-user scheme at Trindade station; it is valued at up to €20.5 million a year.
From Thursday, Transtejo · Soflusa begins a new river service between Trafaria and Porto Brandão in Almada and the Algés waterfront in Oeiras, extending to Belém. Running seven days a week on a six-month trial, it adds a rare east–west link to a ferry network built around north–south crossings.
Polish manufacturer PESA has withdrawn from supplying trains for Lisbon's Violet Line light metro — the second supplier to exit after China's CRRC fell foul of EU foreign-subsidy rules. The Mota-Engil consortium, whose €598.9m bid covers 17 stations from Odivelas to Loures, must now find a replaceme
