As of this Monday, April 17, line 4701 will connect Moita to Lisbon with two express runs during the morning and more schedules.
From its start-up on June 1, 2022, the line 4701 carried more than 695 thousand passengers. The numbers remain high in 2023, with the month of March showing a total of more than 97 thousand passengers carried and a weekday average of more than four thousand passengers a day. To cope with demand and reports of full buses, Carris Metropolitana is adjusting the supply on this line.
Line 4701 connects Vale da Amoreira, in Moita, to Lisbon, passing through Sarilhos Grandes and Alhos Vedros. As of this Monday, April 17th, you will have a new circulation starting at 5:40 am from Vale da Amoreira to "better serve passengers in the early hours of the day"Carris Metropolitana reports. On opposite direction (Lisbon - Vale da Amoreira), there will be a circulation at 6:30 a.m.. It is still in the process of creating a third new circulation on the 4701 bypass that starts only in Moita (not in Vale da Amoreira), heading to Lisbon; in this case, there will be a bus at 7:40.
In the month of March, in first hours of the morning, between 5 am and 8 amline 4701 transported about 31 730 passengers. Therefore, Carris Metropolitana is creating a new 'Express' variant on 4701, which will have "fewer stops" and that will allow "passengers arrive in Lisbon in less time“. The 4701 Express will have two daily circulations, one at 6 a.m. and another at 7 a.m. These two circulations have departures in Vale da Amoreira, at the usual stop by the Mouzinho da Silveira School. The 4701 Express line will follow through Rua da União, Alhos Vedros, Fonte da Prata, N11 next to the supermarket and, at the BP gas station, right at the entrance of Moita, take the A33 directly to Lisbon, instead of going to Sarilhos Grandes.
It should be noted that with the entry of Carris Metropolitana, the number of services on weekdays increased from the previous 76 to 99 (+30%) and that, with this change, there are now 102 services (+34%) every weekday. Another four circulations of line 4701 had their times adjusted to allow a better distribution between services. Note that the 4701 is the second line that carries more passengers in Area 4 of Carris Metropolitana's operation and that it had already been reinforced before.
Palmela and Setúbal win new lines
Reducing travel time by about half an hour and eliminating the current transfer in Poceirão, passengers from Pinhal Novo who wish to reach Brejos do Poço, will now count on the line 4525 "Faias - Pinhal Novo via N5" for daily commuting.
With the new route starting next to the Faias Primary School, the 4525 line continues towards the Pinhal Novo High School with stops in Aldeia Nova Aroeira, Foros Trapo, Loja Nova, Brejo do Poço, Lagoa Calvo, Asseiceira and Poceirão, "ensuring a new mobility option for the school community of these parishes in the municipality of Palmela and Setúbal"Carris Metropolitana reports.
In the municipality of Setubal the line 4460 "Circular de Azeitão" with a length of 16 kilometers and scheduled to run every 45 minutes. This new line will serve "several points in Azeitão, including schools and municipal infrastructure".
The timetables for the 4701 and the two new lines can now be found at carrismetropolitana.pt, selecting dates starting on April 17.
