The intersection of Trambesòs and Trambaix by Diagonal is a little closer. Tonight, for the first time, The tram is already running between Plaça de les Glòries and Verdaguer.
He did it in tests at just 5 km/h (the speed of a walking person) and with twenty technicians waiting for him. It’s just getting started, though. The image has a great symbolic load.Because it is the first step in the first phase of communication that will enter service, this fall, after long years of fluctuations and disagreements.
the moment, For several monthsTrumps will do. prove Along the new road, beyond Glòries. First, the so-called “Integration Tests” Where all systems will be checked for operation.
Then comes the so-called tests. “unemployed”where the trams will now move as if they were carrying passengers, at commercial speed and stopping at the three future stations (Monumental, Sicily and Verdaguer).
Once these tests are successfully completed, the tram will be ready to enter service. Neither the Metropolitan Transport Authority (ATM) nor the Barcelona City Council I want to put a date on it, But they claim it will be this fall.
The tests that started today will actually determine the calendar. They will not be daily, and will be carried out depending on the results. They are held at night to disrupt traffic as little as possible in that area of the Eixample.
The display is underground and not via a chain.
This section between Glòries and Verdaguer presents an important technological innovation, because lThe energy capture will be buried. Not through the upper baskets.
It is called the system. APS (Automatic Surface Feeding)It is the first time it has been implemented in Spain on the tramway network. This is where “technicians will pay more attention” in these first tests, according to ATM manager Manuel Valdés.
for every For the second time in the worldThe ATM says, they’ll have to.Adapting the current tram to this systemIn this case, 18 will be modified (three new ones will also arrive). When the trains arrive at the Glòries junction They will fold the pantograph. Which connects them with a chain and Skis Which will join them with the buried feed in order to continue diagonally upwards.
Call is suspended
he The section between Glòries and Verdaguer is about two kilometres long, and the tram will reach them in seven minutes.ATMs calculate that the Trampus buses will nearly double the daily ridership of 30,000.
The development is practically complete, and will mean 17,000 square metres of new pavement.
What will remain? suspendedand still with many questions, he is The second stage of communicationwhich will have to join the Verdaguer stops with Francesc Macià, where the Trambaix ends.
The chief engineer of the city council, Oriol Altesinsch, confirmed that the project will be prepared in July, but he did not clarify whether it will be processed during this term.
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