What is planned for the Portuguese railroad will take time to impact Portuguese society, but the trajectory that Pedro Nuno Santos designed will not go backwards. After the subprime crisis, in the now distant 2016, the country found that disinvestment in the railways had exceeded the most pessimistic expectations. Compared to the investment in the road, which placed Portugal at the forefront of European countries in this matter, the railway was practically accommodated by the government, placing the country at the tail of Europe, with serious consequences for the mobility of citizens, for combating climate change, but also for the Portuguese economy, whether in terms of industry or freight transport. Today expectations are very different.

The path is being taken slowly, with a medium and long-term strategy, and with consistency. The railway program 2020, budgeted at more than 2000 million euros, is being completed, allowing to normalize the Portuguese railway map with investments requested for many years, from electrification of lines, requalification of others or even acquisition or requalification of trains. The international corridors: North-South between Nine and Valença concluded; North – Beira Baixa Line between Covilhã and Guarda concluded; North – Beira Alta Line between Pampilhosa and Guarda and Guarda under construction; South between Évora and Elvas under construction.