Metro trip from central Gondomar to Estádio do Dragão will take 20 mins | OneFootball

The metro link between Souto, in central Gondomar, and Estádio do Dragão, in Porto, whose new line is currently under public consultation, is expected to take 20 minutes, a Metro do Porto source told Lusa.

“The travel time for the Estádio do Dragão–Souto service will be 20 minutes and 28 seconds,” an official source from the operator told Lusa today. The calculation includes 30-second stops at each station.

The same source added that the line is expected to operate as a “commercial connection to an existing line,” that is, “it will be a line linking Gondomar to the entire shared section [Senhora da Hora–Estádio do Dragão, served by lines A, B, C, E and F] and, consequently, to central Porto.” The model will be similar to that of the Orange line (F), which connects Senhor de Matosinhos to Fânzeres.

The project includes new stations at São Roque, Cerco and Parque Oriental, in Porto, as well as Lagoa, Valbom, Hospital Fernando Pessoa, Cosme Ferreira Castro, Oliveira Martins and Souto, in Gondomar. The future line is expected to attract 10.3 million passengers “in the first year of the cruising period,” “of which 4.2% comes from induced demand.”

“Regarding competing modes, there is a decrease of 1.4 million passengers using private transport, alongside a reduction of 3.3 million passengers using public transport (considering STCP passengers, private operators and rail),” states the demand study prepared by Trenmo, by Álvaro Costa.

The projections also point to an overall “9.0% increase in passengers on the Metro do Porto network.” In the first year of operation, time savings are expected to reach 247,539 hours per year for private transport users and 661,390 hours for users of other public transport modes.

As for the percentage of new users of the Metro do Porto system, the study estimates, by station — then with one fewer station, Cosme Ferreira Castro, and different names — 13% at São Roque, 98% at Cerco, 8% at Lagarteiro, now Parque Oriental, 4% at Lagoa, 92% at Valbom, 73% at Hospital de Gondomar, now Hospital Fernando Pessoa, 24% at Oliveira Martins and 10% at Souto.

“The results show that Cerco, Valbom and Hospital de Gondomar [Fernando Pessoa] are the stations with the highest rate of attracting new users. Conversely, at Lagarteiro [Parque Oriental], Lagoa and Souto, passengers who were already using the Metro network are highly significant,” the study notes.

In the cost-benefit analysis, the document concludes that “the project generates economic, social and environmental benefits greater than its costs, leading to an increase in social well-being that justifies its implementation,” despite, “from a financial point of view, a negative Net Present Value and an Internal Rate of Return below the financial discount rate.”

The study estimates “that the Campanhã–Souto line project, via Valbom, will show a positive economic return, with an eNPV [economic Net Present Value] of 11 million euros and an eIRR [economic internal rate of return] of (5.15%), above the social discount rate (5%).”

Construction of the new line is expected to cost between 146.9 million and 163.8 million euros. The study is available for public consultation on the participa.pt portal until 15 September. The project may require the felling of up to 533 trees, although that number could fall to 394, and the demolition of 24 buildings.

With a length of 6.9 kilometres, the line is expected to be built in three years. Funding is secured through the European funds programme Sustainable 2030, which has earmarked 225 million euros for this link and for the Trofa line.

In January, Metro do Porto chairman Emídio Gomes announced that the tender for the design and construction of the line would be launched later this year.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇵🇹 here.