The Portuguese government will ask for the allocation of €126m from the Juncker Plan in order to begin work on the Cascais train line in Lisbon. A new power line is to be installed and the trains that circulate through Lisbon must be renewed, a process that has been postponed several times because of the high level of investment needed. Once the money is disbursed, work should be completed by the end of 2021. Some of the carriages now circulating through Cascais are several decades old. The modernization of the railway line Cascais was one of the projects included in the Strategic Plan of Transport and Infrastructure 2014-2020 approved in 2014 by the previous government, which included €160m mainly financed by the European Union.
