With the dismantling of the Joaquín Costa bridge already completed in October and the traffic restored in the area, the new year will bring Joaquín Costa the redevelopment process that will replace the scalextric.

The Madrid City Council will build a boulevard similar to the one built in the area in the 19th century during the expansion of the city with three traffic lanes in each direction on

Francisco Silvela Street

with a tree-lined area serving as a median.

To these will be added

an extension of the sidewalks, a segregated bike lane and a lane reserved for buses and taxis

in each direction that will cross the main road through the López de Hoyos roundabout until they reach Príncipe de Vergara.

"These actions end up infecting and improving all the renovation actions in the city," said the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, during the presentation of the new boulevard that will replace the bridge.

A bridge that collapsed last July, after 51 years in the vicinity of Joaquín Costa, and that forced the Works and Equipment Area to start its dismantling that lasted for three months until its completion, prior to the established deadlines.

"

Dismantling this scalextric ended up becoming an opportunity

to show the people of Madrid the new post-Covid city," said the councilor.

Joaquín Costa's surroundings in the middle of the construction processBERNARDO DÍAZ

And that new city passes through a boulevard that allows to gain 20% of public space for pedestrians, in which 300 new trees will be planted, the zebra crossings will be expanded and which

will have an open-air contemporary art museum

in the who already work in the Works Department and in the Culture Department.

"I think it is particularly important for the beautification of this area," he stressed before detailing that this artistic exhibition will essentially focus on a sculptural group.

This has been pointed out by Almeida, who has stated that the redevelopment process will have a budget of 10.5 million euros and that it will run from the beginning of the year during a nine-month process that will take it until the end of summer.

"Hopefully we can also shorten these deadlines," said Almeida, who added that these new works will mean "a considerable improvement" for residents of the area who have lived for five decades with a scalextric in front of their windows.

Along with the main

reform, a reform of Gabriel Lobo Street, one of the commercial hubs of the Chamartín district,

will be accompanied at the same time

.

"It was a demand widely requested by the residents of the environment," concluded the councilor who has also announced developments in the vicinity of the schools in the area since they will have more green areas to create children's and play areas for minors .

The Works delegate, Paloma García Romero, has detailed that her department will intervene on 64,000 square meters of land, betting on

a "very powerful environmental project" that will provide "many more green areas and much more public space"

to the residents of Chamartín, replacing "an antiquated model" as represented by the scalextric built during the 1960s and disassembled in phases this summer due to the imminent risk of collapse.

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