In 2025, Metropolitan Carriage registered a total of 194 million transported passengers, and today the companies revealed subsequent records from the Public Prosecutor’s Office in all municipalities from the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (AML).
In a press release in Carris Metropolitana, the number of plots reached 5.8 million passengers “strengthening the daily response to regional mobility”, highlighting the significant growth expected until 2024 in municipalities such as Palmela (+26%), Moita (+23%), Cascais (+19%), Montijo (+17%) and Setúbal (+16%).
The year 2025 also marked a record number of passengers transported daily in subway cars on October 15, namely 763 million passengers. All-time highs were recorded at the end of the week, with 340.5 million passengers on Saturday 31 May and 310.3 million passengers on Sundays or weekends on 15 August.
Last year, Metro Carriage recorded a total of 90 million kilometers traveled.
In agreement with the company, all municipalities from the AML will share in the results, “more requests recorded on Sunday, Saturday and Sunday, highlighting the more regular use of public transport during the week”.
“The results of 2025 show that the Metropolitan Carriage is now a more robust and reliable alternative that can be moved daily for the foreseeable future. The growth supported by the power of attorney reflects or continuous investment in the quality of services, territorial coverage and connections with other modes of transport, placing people in the metropolitan center of mobility,” realça and Carris Metropolitana.
The company says that 2025 will see passenger volumes carried in municipalities such as Sintra (30.4 million passengers), Loures (23.5 million passengers), Lisboa (20.4 million passengers), Almada (19.5 million passengers) and Seixal (17.3 million passengers).
According to metro data, the total number of passengers transported to Lisbon is 69.8 million passengers, with a total of 12.2 million passengers transported in Lisbon.
Growth until 2024 will be transversal to AML, with significant increases in Palmela (+26%), Moita (+23%), Cascais (+19%), Montijo (+17%) and Setúbal (+16%).
According to Carris Metropolitana, as previously used references “evidenciam a importación das ligações entre concelhos”, exemplos da 1715 (Belém – Mira Sintra), da 2711 (Charneca – Lisboa Oriente), da 2790 (Alverca – Lisboa da3508) or Paacio Piracio (Pasaciio – Piracio) outtras.
The growth of the proxy also reflects the main features of the rede, leaving the cities of Agualva-Cacém (+36%), Portela de Sintra (+27%), Gare do Oriente (+23%), Pragal (+20%) and Amadora (+16%) between 2024 and 2025.
And Carris Metropolitana is a brand created for intercity trucks in the Lisboa region, coordinated by Transportes Metropolitanos de Lisboa, a public administration entity dependent on the Lisboa Metropolitan Area (AML).
It has been operating since June 1, 2022 in four areas (favored to major private operators) that include 15 municipalities from the AML that delegate their responsibilities to Transportes Metropolitanos de Lisboa.
The operation of Metro Carris also includes links to municipalities that do not delegate responsibility and will directly manage local transport: Barreiro (TBC), Cascais (MobiCascais) and Lisboa (Carris).
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