Barcelona will experience an event in history this November and it will be claimed so many times union of Trambaix and Trambesòs through the city center will begin to be a reality. This work was the subject of multiple municipal disputes for decades and became the subject of a citizen consultation in 2010, in which, by the way, ‘no’ won. Now it is preparing to be a new alternative for metropolitan transportation.
In all these years it has been constantly debated whether the first option to improve metropolitan transport in Barcelona should be this action by the Diagonal avenue, one of the city’s main roads, and some also questioned that a bus would not be enabled, which did not imply eliminating lanes or having to install rails, to make the same route.
With these doubts put to rest, the local and regional authorities decided bet on this expansion which, according to official sources, and thinking only of the first section that comes into operation from Glòries to Verdaguer, will serve some 24,000 trips a day and will allow the elimination of around 2,000 cars along Diagonal.
Opening date and hours
The city council itself announced two weeks ago that the inauguration of the new section, between Glòries and Verdaguer, would be the next Saturday November 9 in a day that will feature an institutional event but will also be a great citizen festival.
In recent days the blank teststhat is to say without ticket but simulating a real servicea crucial phase to confirm that the traffic light changes, passage intervals and signage are correct.
The authorities have already confirmed that the new section, between Castillejos Bailén streets, can be completed in seven minutes. The operating hours of the new section will be the same as those of the rest of the Tram lines.
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Monday to Thursday: 5 a.m. to 12 a.m.
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Fridays, Saturdays and the eve of holidays: from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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Sundays: from 5 a.m. to midnight.
Three new stations
The line in question that will go to Verdaguer will be T4that has stopped finishing its tour in the Ciutadella (which do maintain T5 and T6) and will now have three new stations, all of them located on the same Diagonal and spread over a stretch of about two kilometers. The new stops will be La Monumental (between Padilla and Lepanto streets), Sicília (between Sicília and Nàpols) and Verdaguer (between Bailèn and Girona).
The work has also meant that a few weeks ago the Tram station in Glòries has been reorganized, which has now become a large modal interchange for tram, bus and metro.
In this new section, users will be able to link with four Metro lines (L1, L2, L4 and L5) and thirteen bus lines of Metropolitan Transport of Barcelona. To learn more about the new service in even more detail and plan better routes, you can consult the official channels of the City Council or the affected companies, as well as mobility apps like Moovit.
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