Silver Coast station of the TGV in Rio Maior

A station of the TGV in Rio Maior will be one of the compensations that the region is going to receive in the plan of compensations that is being negotiated between the mayors and the government; now that it has been determined that the future airport of Lisbon will not be built in Ota.

Mayors of most of the Silver Coast region all gathered for a meeting with Minister of Public Workings, Mr. Mario Lino, which returned to Caldas da Rainha, to the headquarters of the Association of the West Region Counties. This was the second of a series of meetings regarding counterparts for the Silver Coast and West region in general, to compensate the “loss” of the promised new airport.

Regarding the projected sketch of the TGV stations, Mr. Mario Lino advanced that as the new airport already is not going to be built in Ota, "we now have more liberty in the sketch and up to the launching of the contests we will continue to improve".

Once again, great news for the Silver Coast, as accessibility will be considerably improved, which shows the degree of importance the Silver Coast has in the national context and as Portugal moves in to the future, there is no doubt that the Silver Coast will have a huge part in the making…