The burying of the A-5, promoted by the Madrid City Council, represents a mobility challenge that the local administration, together with the Community of Madrid and the Regional Transport Consortium, intend to solve with patches. With only two additional trains on Metro line 10 and trusting that this line and the Cercanías C-5 are capable of taking on the traffic that today runs on the surface. Both, however, are permanently saturated, so the reinforcement of public transport seems clearly insufficient. To understand this minimalist policy, we must look at the delays of the rulers, all of the same political color, for delaying the purchase of new trains for the Metro, a suburban that no longer manages to address the growing demand for travel.
At the same time, both the City Council and the Community, both controlled by the PP, begin to blame the Ministry of Transport for not liberalizing the tolls on Radial 5, despite the fact that the work is the exclusive responsibility of the City Council, which covers most of its cost. Óscar Puente’s team, which also had to carry out a massive project to lengthen the platforms of the C-5, has chosen to delay it so as not to increase the chaos, despite the fact that every day it moves 2.5 times more people than the highway does. bury Question of priorities.
The mobility plan designed by the ‘popular’ thinking minds does not consider it appropriate to install an exclusive bus lane on the Cuatro Vientos-Príncipe Pío section, a solution that would facilitate the transfer of intercity buses that connect the southwest with the capital. In exchange, all Cuatro Vientos passengers will be stranded, forcing them to switch to the subway or Cercanías, means that will not be able to absorb this additional demand, which shows the lack of foresight for those who depend on public transportation.
Added to this panorama is the closure of key accesses to the city center from the south due to the works on Metro line 11, which affect areas such as Atocha, Delicias, Legazpi or Conde de Casal.the latter already collapsed and without their projected interchanges yet having an execution date. This lack of anticipation adds to the inefficiency in mobility management, while Madrid’s rulers continue to prioritize less relevant infrastructure such as the Valdebebas interchange.
Once again, the Madrid mobility model once again benefits motorists over those who choose public transport, who save space and emissions.. All of this leads Madrid residents to a perfect storm of problems when traveling, the result of the inaction of their leaders.
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