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Transportation
Viva Viagem and Lisboa Viva cards
Viva Viagem card was concepted for who not use transportation all days. This card can be charged at all Carris sell points, or at the blue machines at the subway entrance. You can charge on it just simple trips, or an amount money (called zapping mode). This second option permits you to travel in Carris, subway or boats to cross Tejo river. Each time you use one of this ways of transportation, the correpondent ticket fare is discount on the amount of money on the card. The card is valid during one year. A new can be obtained in many places. The best ones are at the blue machines on subway. It has a cost of 0,50 €. When you buy a single ticket it comes with.
Lisboa Viva card is used for recharging the monthly tickets, and could be used as well with zapping chargement. This card is personalized, and can be used only for the owner. To obtain it you need to move to some special sell points (e.g. Marques de Pombal subway station) to get it. If you have 23 or less, read the topic "Sub23 card".
Sub 23 card
Are you 23 or less? Do you need to use the transportations often? You can get this card so and receive a 50% discount on the monthly tickets! What you need to do. Go to your faculty, and ask for a student proof. After go to a monthly sell point (e.g. Marques de Pombal subway station) and ask for the card. If you have already LisboaViva card, you just need to show it, and this new card will be for free. Otherwise the card costs 3,50 €.
Yellow buses and trams
During the first times, we suggest you to charge Viva Viagem card with an amount on money (zapping). This way each ticket fare is 0,81 €. When you don’t have with you Viva Viagem card, or this one is without money, you should buy the ticket to the driv- er, and in this case it has a cost of 1,40 €. One day ticket cost 3,70 €, and can be used during 24h in all the subway and Carris network. The monthly ticket only valid in Carris cost 22,60 €. For more information, http://www.carris.pt/fotos/editor2/ tarifario2008.jpg
To know about which bus you need to use to move from one place to an- other one, you should look carefully for
http://www.carris.pt/en/home/
Subway
During the first times, we suggest you to charge Viva Viagem card with an amount on money (zapping). This way each ticket fare is 0,79 €. You don’t have a other option to travel without one of the cards specify on the left. Metropolitan works from 06h30 to 01h00. Is warranty that if you enter the subway station before 01h00 a train will pass. Rush hour is from 8h00 to 10h00 and from 17.00h to 19.00h.
www.metropolitanolisboa.pt/
Trains
The portuguese train company (CP) has a network that covers the major- ity portuguese towns. The five main lines take you to Sintra, Azambuja, Cascais, Sado and Porto/Aveiro. Tick- ets can be bought at the ticket stores or in automatic machines. It is really important that you travel with a tick- et, because the fine is really high. Santa Apolonia’s station is the start- ing point when you are heading to another international destination or to the North. Trains leaving Rossio’s station go to Sintra, but the one’s leaving to Cascais and Estoril depart from Cais do Sodré. Fertagus makes the connection be- tween the two sides of the river, go- ing through the 25 de Abril’s bridge. You also have night trains depart- ing from 4.30h to Cascais, Sintra and Azambuja.
www.cp.pt
Taxi
You can easily identify our taxis as they are coloured beige, or black and green, and have the “taxi” sign in front. The starting price is approxi- mately 2€, and for that point on it in- creases every 0,5€ according to the taximeter.
Transportation by night
Lisbon has several routes and options for transportation at night. Night Buses work on Fridays, Saturdays and the days before holidays, from 22h to 5h in the morning. Bus route 1 and 2 are free charge in this schedule. In the same days, working from about midnight to 4 o’clock in the morning, you have the buses Rede da Madru- gada. They are not free of charge, but have more routes and extend to a greater area of Lisbon. More info at
www.carris.pt/pt/night-bus/ (free service) and www.carris.pt/pt/rede-da-madrugada/
There are trains available at Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, at 4.30h to Cascais, Sintra or Azambuja. Glo- ria’s Tram (ascensor da Gloria) works until 4.30h at Fridays, Saturdays and the day before an holiday. Transtejo and Softlusa have a special service at 4.30h that takes you to Cacilhas and Barreiro every Saturday, Sunday, and holiday.
