There is already a date for the start of the works that should connect, with a new tunnel, the lines of Valles and Baix Logregate-Anoia de Ferrocarrels de la Generalitat (FGC): that will be today. January 8The first working day is Monday after Christmas and Kings Day.
It’s a tunnel 4 kilometers Which will start from Plaça Espanya station, and will pass through two new stations, Clinical Hospital and Francesc MaciaAnd you will reach Gracia. Another new station will be built in Gràcia directly below the current station. In addition, the existing Gracia and Plaça España stations will be redesigned
At Hospital Clínic, there will be a connection with the L5 and Francesc Macià, by tram.
The connection will enter service no later than 2029 and will cost 412 million euros.
According to the generalitats, they would almost win 15 million new users annually. Transport and Infrastructure Minister Mark Sanglass confirms that the work will allow “to cover some areas of the city that currently do not have underground transport.”
The impact on Joan Miro Park has been reduced
Joan Miró Park will become a center of operations and that means it will be a busy one Summer 2024.
However, the project has been redefined so that the park’s impact will be less than originally planned, as this is a controversial issue.
this means Cost overrun of 6 million eurosHowever, it is possible to reduce the affected area to 5,300 square meters, or 12% of the park’s area. Initially, there were to be 8,800.
The number of damaged trees decreased from 178 to 118. When the work is completed, they will be replanted
The state asserts that the alternatives to Juan Miro Park had an unacceptable economic or traffic impact. In this sense, Singlas asserts:
“We do not collect 100% of the neighbors’ demands, but we believe that we collect the spirit of this desire.”
Although part of the operations will be moved to other locations, Juan Miró Park will remain the center.
Specifically, the start of the works means the first occupancy of space in five areas of the city: between Plaza España and Avinguda Parallel, at the intersections of the roads between Count d’Urgel, Conseil de Cent and Rosselló and between Buenos Aires and Plaça Francisque Macia; And in the area of Galla Placidia and Travesera di Gracia.
The tunnel boring machine will dig for two and a half years
On Gran Via street, after the Arenis shopping center, between Lanka and Villamare streets, the attack shaft will be built through which the tunnel boring machine will enter, which will start digging into the ground. At the end of 2025.
This will be the point where the well drilling machine will be inserted, and where drilling will begin. At depths ranging between 40 and 52 metres. It will advance through “good terrain”, according to the technicians, avoiding other infrastructure, such as the L1 and L5 metro lines – under which it will pass – or the Adif tracks.
The two new stations will be built on Carrer Urgell: one at the height of Carrer Rosselló and the other in close proximity to Francesc Macià.
He will be detained for two and a half years. In fact, on Gran Via, between Tarragona and Lanca streets, last summer previous jobsuch as transferring services.
If the deadlines are met, the tunnel boring machine will not, in principle, coincide with the tunnel boring machine of Line 9, whose route is scheduled to end at Plaça Lesseps at the beginning of 2024.
A project more than two decades old
With work starting on January 8, the project began more than 20 years ago.
When everything becomes reality, a user from Manresa, Igualada, Sant Puy or Hospitalet, for example, will be able to go to Gràcia without getting off the train. If he wanted to continue to Valles, he would have to transfer at the same station.
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