The Paseo de la Castellana, the axis that backbones the entire center of Madrid from North to South from Chamartín to Arganzuela, will host in the coming months a large bike lane of up to 13 kilometers to which the rest of the city's bike lanes will be connected. .
The
Madrid City Council will
begin to build two lanes segregated from the rest of the traffic on the emblematic promenade and two meters wide each - one going up and the other down - at the end of the year.
The delegate for the Environment and Mobility,
Borja Carabante
, presented this Monday to opposition groups and cycling associations the project, which will have a budget for its first phase of six million euros.
In total, there will be
13 kilometers
of new bike lanes -6.5 kilometers in each direction- that will become "the backbone of cycling mobility in Madrid, since all existing bike lanes will connect with it", as explained by sources from the City Council directed by José Luis Martínez-Almeida.
This lane is one of the commitments approved by all the municipal groups of the City Council in
the Villa Agreements
that were closed last July as a reaction of the entire Madrid Corporation to the health, economic and social crisis that broke out last year.
As calculated by the Mobility Area, the new corridor will increase by 3,000 the number of daily trips made by bicycle on the Castellana-Recoletos-Prado axis.
The project has been divided into six sections of works.
The first and longest, the northern section, will go from the Plaza de Castilla to Raimundo Fernández Villaverde, has a budget of six million euros and an execution period of 12 months, with which the works will finish at the end of 2022.
It is the longest stretch of all, with two kilometers in each direction.
The works from Raimundo Fernández Villaverde and towards the South will begin already at the end of next year.
The bus lane will be segregated and separated from the other traffic lanes on both sides of the central thoroughfare of Paseo de la Castellana.
To gain space in the lane, the current battery parking on both sides of Madrid's main artery will be converted into online parking spaces, thus
eliminating 134
surface
parking spaces
in the districts of Tetuán and Chamartín, which occupy the two sides of the Castellana.
On the other hand, sources from
the Environment and Mobility Area
highlight that the project will also bring "important improvements in the mobility scheme", especially in the first section of the route, which will increase the safety of cyclists and will always prioritize their circulation.
For example, the intersection of Paseo de la Castellana at the height of Professor Waksman Street (between Cuzco and the Santiago Bernabéu) will be remodeled, or two
transfers
in and out of the trunk of the road on the side of the houses with odd number between Plaza de Castilla and Plaza de Lima.
Finally, mobility will be reordered in the AZCA tunnel area (Tetuán).
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