The railway in the Minho region

In the fourth episode of Estados do Tempo, Pedro Chamusca, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro, moderates a conversation with Ivo Oliveira, professor at the School of Architecture, Art and Design at the University of Minho, and Luís Tarroso Gomes, lawyer and master in Regional and Urban Planning. The discussion focuses on the quality of information about railways and green mobility, in a context marked by the absence of consistent public debate on the subject in the Minho region. The participants highlight this gap, associated with passivity in the face of political decisions with a strong territorial impact, and analyse the options for structuring the railway network and the consequences of planning with lasting effects on the life of civil society. The episode thus highlights the failures of strategic thinking in the planning of the Minho region and the need for a more informed and participatory debate.