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On the Cascais line, the loss of seven trains per day (in each direction), which will take place from August 5, will last five weeks. The rhythm of the compositions that exist today will be resumed on September 9, [Pedro de Carvalho]
In the suburb that connects this village to Cais do Sodré (Lisbon), the official source of the office of the Minister of Planning and Infrastructures, Pedro Brands, the next weekend's changes will remove a train at peak times (morning and afternoon). If there is a connection of 12 minutes (five hours) today, the interval will be 15 minutes in August (four trains per hour).
Already on the line Sintra and in its connection with the line Azambuja routes are several, with different origins and destinations), it will be in the trains between Mira-Sintra / Meleças and Lisbon Rossio that will feel more deletions to from August 5th. Sixteen trains a day will be eliminated from Mira-Sintra / Melecas and 14 from Rossio. On average, the reduction is two trains per peak hour, in each direction.
For the third of the most "disturbing" situations (West Line), as defined by the source of
This week, as reported by Expresso in its print edition of the newspaper, the newspaper stated that it would not be possible to reopen the calendar that will be cut. On Saturday, the government and the CP administration negotiated in Spain rolling stock leasing (three to four diesel and two electric components) to try to minimize the railway company's failure. have the equipment on national tracks until December. These compositions are aimed primarily at strengthening the West Line and other regional connections.
Another executive effort for According to CP, developed this week, it was the authorization of the hiring of more than one hundred workers at EMEF, the company that has the workshops of repair.
In other lines of the country, the cuts resulting from the new August schedules will have less impact, at least in quantitative terms. For example, in a simulation made this Friday by Expresso on CP's search engine, between Porto / São Bento and Braga, the reduction is only a train, in both directions. From 33 to 32, considering all types of courses (from Regional to Alfa Pendular).
Already between Aveiro and Porto / São Bento, the same 47 daily trains are maintained.
Preventing the Political Derailment
The guarantee of the replacement of the Cascais line schedule in September was one of the first to be known this week, after some dispute in the courts announced.
According to the newspaper "Público", this Saturday, with trains running only between Cais do Sodré and Oeiras, and between Cais do Sodré and São Pedro do Estoril (links between the first and the last with the least traffic), the Cascais line has lost 137 trains a day since 2011.
As the Expresso reported this Saturday, it was the action of the executive that led to CP "back down in the train suppression ". For now, August 5 will come into effect the new schedules that the company had intended to impose.
In recent weeks and days, even with planned trains, which is not lacking, they are last-minute deletions throughout the country, sometimes leaving passengers hanging in stations and stops. The reduction in supply (never explicitly assumed by the PC) resulting from the new hours has inflamed even more the protests (from users, professional associations and mayors), both in urban and peri-urban areas and at the same time. Inside
of dissatisfaction that led the government to intervene, fearing an increase in the unpopularity of the public enterprise, and by extension a political cost to the executive led by António Costa .
The government and the CP are finalizing the final schedule, after the changes of August, "will return to the current format in September / October". But there is one that is already known that it will end: the first Alfa Pendular between Lisbon and Porto, the only train that left the capital arrived in the second city before 9 am
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