The Metro Mondego, part of the

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system of

Coimbra Coimbra (, also , , or ), officially the City of Coimbra (), is a city and a concelho, municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2021 census was 140,796, in an area of . The fourth-largest agglomerated urban area in Po ...

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, was to have been a

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network that runs above ground in Coimbra into the city's

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s. Studies and planning were in progress but the Metro Mondego project was cancelled in January 2011 at the height of Portuguese financial crisis. The operational conventional

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connecting the municipalities of:

Miranda do Corvo Miranda do Corvo (), officially the Town of Miranda do Corvo (), is a town and a Concelho, municipality in the Portugal, Portuguese Coimbra District, district of Coimbra, with an area of and 2011 population of 13,098 inhabitants. History The fi ...

Lousã Lousã (), officially Lousã Town (), is a town and municipality in the district of Coimbra, in the central part of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 17,604, in an area of 138.40 km2. History The oldest evidence provides an indication of ...

, and Serpins was closed at the same time and replaced by a bus service. A major part of the plan was to rejoin the isolated section of rail line between the stations of Coimbra - Parque and Serpins to the rest of the rail network at Coimbra and Coimbra - B station. This would have involved street running along Ave. Emídio Navarro and Ave. da Lousã between the two existing stations of Coimbra and Coimbra-Parque. There was a single un-electrified track along that street section used once a day for a scheduled train. It was also used to transfer rolling stock to and from the Coimbra-Parque station. Travelling north, the trains ran in the opposite direction to road traffic along a one-way street. The track embedded in the street is still intact; however, the Coimbra-Parque station was demolished in March 2022, and by that time, the rails in the other sections of the track had been lifted. There is some local agitation to have the Serpins aspect of the project restarted as there is dissatisfication with the replacement bus service; current plans see the replacement of the railway with a bus rapid transit service.

Stations

The system would have had two lines with several stations: *Line A: ''Coimbra-B'' - ''Hospital'' *Line B: ''Coimbra-B'' - ''Serpins'' along the line of the old railway.

Line A

*Coimbra B (train connections to

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) *Açude *Inês de Castro *Aeminium *Arnado *Câmara (City Hall) *Mercado *Praça da República *Universidade (

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) *Sereia (

Parque de Santa Cruz Parque is the Galician, Portuguese and Spanish word for "park", and may refer to: * Parque (TransMilenio), a metro station in Bogotá, Colombia * Parque (Lisbon Metro), in Portugal * Parque (Santurce), a subbarrio in San Juan, Puerto Rico * Battle ...

) *Celas *Hospital

Line B

*Coimbra B *Açude *Inês de Castro *Aeminium *Portagem *Parque (near

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) *Rainha Santa *Arregaça *Norton Matos *São José *Solum (near

Estádio Cidade de Coimbra The Estádio Cidade de Coimbra (') is a stadium in Coimbra, Portugal. This stadium belongs to the Municipality of Coimbra and is mainly used by the Associação Académica de Coimbra - O.A.F., Académica de Coimbra's soccer, football team. The s ...

) *Vale das Flores *Carvalhosas *Quinta da Fonte *Conraria *Ceira *Vale de Açor *Tremoa *Moinhos *Lobazes *Miranda do Corvo *Corvo *Padrão *Meiral *Lousã - A *Lousã *Espirito Santo *Serpins

External links

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