A millenary, modern and Mediterranean city, Badalona is the jewel of the Besós delta. A capital that has before it the opportunity to project itself to Barcelona itself.
In addition to being the third largest city in Catalonia, Badalona is ideally located halfway between the city of Barcelona and the coast of Maresme. Good conditions for their development and promotion, which have a pending issue in communications.
The arrival of the lines L2 and L10 of the subway, the train and the tram, needed a new project. The interconnection of all these networks.
And this will undoubtedly be the completion of metro line 1 with five new stations. The project, which had been parked 10 years ago, is back on track with a million dollar investment.
On the horizon, take the subway to Montigalá in 2025. And the tram to the port of Badalona in 2020. Good news for the real estate market in and around Barcelona.
Connection to the north of Badalona
The extension of line 1 of the metro to Badalona will be activated again. After almost a decade with the project parked, the five new stations of the city have free way. Benefiting neighborhoods of the badalonés north, like Lloreda, Bufalà, Sant Crist, and Montigalá. And making the subway go to the subway station.
Although the start of the works must wait until 2020, there is already a date for completion. It will be between 2024 and 2025.
Between five and six more years of waiting to settle a pending debt with the most deficient area in Badalona communications.
This extension of the metro L1 will have a budget of 450 to 500 million euros. According to data of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
A project in several phases
The first phase of the project includes the construction of a 1.5 km track and two new stations: Montigalà Center and Lloreda-Sant Crist. In addition to garages, workshops, a new tail of maneuvers and a warehouse of trains.
It is an investment of 260 million euros to service more than 40,000 users per day.
The second phase corresponds to the last three stations of the line: Bufalà, Badalona Pompeu Fabra and Badalona Cercanías. This is another construction project with an investment of more than 200 million euros.
The Generalitat wants to leave both studies ready in the spring of 2018. Leaving the five stations planned in 2020. Objective needed to comply with the Infrastructure Master Plan (PDI) 2011-2020.
For them, all stations will be included in the PDI 2021-2030. The complexity of the works, realized in surface and not with TBM, will make it difficult to shorten deadlines. In fact, it is a project that will cross a stretch of four kilometers. Crossing densely populated neighborhoods.
Third stage: Tram to the Port
Another equally important project is the one that affects TRAMBesós.
Badalona has another plan for the improvement of public transport for 2020. The aim is to get the T4 line of the tram to the port of the city. Summing 3,000 passengers daily to the network.
This project of extension of TRAMBesòs will connect the coast of Badalona with the station of Sant Adrià de Besòs. A project that affects 1.7 km of tracks. The project works will have an investment of 30 million euros. Driving the port area in the area of ??Les Tres Xemeneies.
In this case, the construction project is ready in 2019 for the bidding of works in 2020.
With these three projects, Badalona will only be pending completion of the central section of the metro line 9. A new phase that would definitely boost one of the cities with the most projection of the coast of Barcelona.
