Urban Planning, Ecological Transition, Urban Services and Housing

The connection of the tram systems will give Barcelona a public transport system which links nine municipalities in the Metropolitan Area and moves towards a better connected, healthier, friendlier and more sustainable city.

Barcelona d’Infraestructures Municipals (BIMSA) has opened the bidding process for the first four lots of the civil works in phase one of the project for the connection and urbanisation of the tram network.

The publication of the bidding process signals the start of the task to award and begin the works and it has come about following the approval of the collaboration agreement, in December last year, by the Municipal Council of Barcelona City Council and the board of directors of the Metropolitan Transport Authority (ATM) to make this project a reality. The two parties approved the projects in phase one of the project to connect the tram systems (the Verdaguer-Glòries stretch) and the budget earmarked for the project.

With the launch of this bidding process, Barcelona City Council and the ATM are fulfilling their commitment to put the works out to tender before the summer, with the aim of getting the work started this coming autumn.

The connection of the tram systems will give Barcelona a public transport system which links nine municipalities in the Metropolitan Area and moves towards a better connected, healthier, friendlier and more sustainable city.

Four lots of the civil works put out to tender

This initial step entails putting four lots of the civil works out to tender, for work in the following areas:

• Interchange canopy: Development of the Canopy Park – tramline area – and phase one of the extension of the L1 Glòries station concourse – structure below the development)
• Stretch between Gran Via and Lepant: redevelopment of Avinguda Diagonal on this stretch and implementation of the tram network.
• Stretch between Lepant and Nàpols: redevelopment of Avinguda Diagonal on this stretch and implementation of the tram network..
• Stretch between Nàpols and Girona: redevelopment of Avinguda Diagonal (between Carrer Nàpols and Passeig de Sant Joan) and implementation of the tram network (between Carrer Nàpols and Carrer Girona)

The works related to these four lots are expected to take 21 months to complete.

Over the coming weeks the rest of the lots will be put out to tender until all nine lots in this phase are open for bids.