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La Marina del Prat Vermell to add 424 new social housing units
Housing. There will also be a cultural centre and a square that will continue the main corridor through the neighbourhood.
TMB bus depot at Triangle Ferroviari will be the city’s first all-electric facility
TMB. Electrification of the Ferroviari Triangle depot continues, with an eye to becoming fully electric by 2026.
Increased cleaning coverage and operations under new graffiti removal contract
Pla Endreça. In the first six months of the new contract, the area cleaned increased by 30% and the number of operations by 15%.
The procedure for sponsoring tree beds reopens
Take part in the programme and sponsor a tree bed.
Groundwater network upgraded to improve drought resilience
Environment. The systems in Alfons el Magnànim, Palau Reial, Eixample and Can Batlló will be extended.
Increased efforts to stabilise slopes in mountain districts
Urban planning and infrastructures. Over the next four years, work will be carried out on around twenty walls.
Zoo adapts to high temperatures, reduces its water consumption
Zoo. The keepers are taking extraordinary measures to ensure the health and welfare of the animals during periods of extreme heat.
How is the city’s air quality?
Health and safety. According to the findings of the assessment report, the city’s annual average NO2 levels in 2023 were the best on record.
Works to take place on three new stretches of La Rambla
La Rambla. From 5 August, the works on La Rambla will take place on new stretches on the side of the Gothic Quarter.
The Barcelona City Council challenge prototypes are now starting to provide shade
BIT Habitat. Rambla de Badal, 113, the Blau Museum zone and Plaça Comercial in El Born are the three spaces where the Barcelona City Council ephemeral shade challenge prototypes are being installed, to generate shade in public space.