Giugiaro
Established Member
Summarizing the news over the past couple of weeks, the High-Speed Line between Lisbon and Porto has been under fire.
LusoLAV, the consortium that won the contract to make the building project for the 1a stretch between Porto and Oiã, has been making significant changes from the government's proposed plan, costing several homes and significantly downgrading the scope of the railway line.
This week it came to the public that the consortium was holding meetings with the Mayor of Vila Nova de Gaia to change the HSR station from the transport hub of Santo Ovídio to a sparsely populated area in Vilar do Paraíso, two kilometers to the South and without notifying the Portuguese government nor the Portuguese railway infrastructure manager.
The aforementioned plan also looks to replace the double-decker bridge and separate it into two independent bridges, looking to simplify the bridge structure and management.
In Espinho, the LusoLAV consortium changed the pre-project alignment, which avoided residential homes and minimized disruptions above land.
The current proposal maximizes the amount of track built at ground level or through trenches, but oddly enough avoiding horse ranches that were recently involved in a scandal that brought down the current Portuguese government and parliament.
Meanwhile, the 1b stretch, between Oiã and Soure, was canceled as the only proposal, again from LusoLAV, ignored the flyover and quad-track to Coimbra and renovation of the existing railway station in favor of a through-station near Casais do Campo, almost four kilometers away.
LusoLAV, the consortium that won the contract to make the building project for the 1a stretch between Porto and Oiã, has been making significant changes from the government's proposed plan, costing several homes and significantly downgrading the scope of the railway line.
This week it came to the public that the consortium was holding meetings with the Mayor of Vila Nova de Gaia to change the HSR station from the transport hub of Santo Ovídio to a sparsely populated area in Vilar do Paraíso, two kilometers to the South and without notifying the Portuguese government nor the Portuguese railway infrastructure manager.
The aforementioned plan also looks to replace the double-decker bridge and separate it into two independent bridges, looking to simplify the bridge structure and management.
In Espinho, the LusoLAV consortium changed the pre-project alignment, which avoided residential homes and minimized disruptions above land.
The current proposal maximizes the amount of track built at ground level or through trenches, but oddly enough avoiding horse ranches that were recently involved in a scandal that brought down the current Portuguese government and parliament.
Meanwhile, the 1b stretch, between Oiã and Soure, was canceled as the only proposal, again from LusoLAV, ignored the flyover and quad-track to Coimbra and renovation of the existing railway station in favor of a through-station near Casais do Campo, almost four kilometers away.