The renewal of the subway in the Plaza de Las Ventas, which use 250,000 travelers per month, will be completed within a year

Last June 2024 began the remodeling and modernization works of the Sales Metro station, which use 250,000 users per month. The works are going to go to the installation, which had just turned a hundred years, and incidentally they will recover the old lobby, without use since 1970, which once opened will be part of the Museum Network of the Madrid Metro. The Minister of Transportation, Jorge Rodrigo, has made a visit to the works to advance this Friday that they will be ended approximately in the first quarter of 2026, that is, within a year.

The works include replacing the coatings, facilities and technology that has become obsolete, with other more current materials and equipment.

In addition, the station will have five elevators that will allow users to move vertically, from the surface to the platforms, by means of elevators. This same line of elevator installation will be maintained on the metro network, where this improvement will also be provided with other stations such as Tetuán, Puente de Vallecas, Linear City, Carabanchel, Camp and Canillejas, which will have 15 elevators that directly connect the street with the platform, at the rate of two per station, except linear city that will have three and Carabanchel that will have four, due to its proximity to the Gómez Ulla hospital. In addition, mechanical stairs will be mounted at the Prosperity, Star and San Blas stations. These new elevators will mean an investment of 19 million euros and will begin next March.

As for the works of the sales station (where lines 2 and 5 of the Metro network converge), they are framed within the accessibility and inclusion plan of the Community of Madrid. In addition to the new five elevators that will be installed, it will also premiere corridors, tickets and a fully renovated lobby. The action has a budget of more than 14 million euros.

At present, in the Madrid Metro there are 1,710 mechanical stairs and 559 elevators, which makes it one of the most accessible suburban in the world.