Public transport, infrastructure, and mobility in Portugal.
Parliament has backed compulsory helmets for e-scooter and e-bike riders at first reading. The PSD bill, with €30 to €150 fines and a night-time reflective-clothing rule, now goes to committee before a final vote.
The food hall beside São Bento station says the metro building site cost it sales, advertising money and its image. Metro do Porto blames its contractor, says access was never cut and argues that disruption from public works gives no automatic right to compensation.
The rail safety authority's 2025 report counts 25 significant accidents, the fewest in five years, but level crossing accidents more than doubled to 11. Broken rails and track deformations also rose.
An AMT study says the fuel levy and tolls that pay for Portugal's roads are both shrinking, as motorway concessions start to expire in 2028. Its options: distance charging for lorries and vans, congestion charges, and a levy electric cars would pay too.
Half of the road traffic between Portugal and Spain crosses in the Alto Minho, their spokesman says. Their one-page list starts with a Valença, Monção and Melgaço bypass and an extension of the A28.
A dispatch in the official gazette creates the team that will design the Cascais line subconcession. Sintra/Azambuja may follow; the Sado line and Porto's suburban trains, once in the plan, are no longer in it.
The Botija Solidária covers up to two gas bottles a month for households on the social electricity tariff or a minimum social benefit. Road hauliers and bus companies can now recover up to 70 percent of the fuel increase.
