Patching an original problem

In order to establish this type of infrastructure, it seems essential that the said neighborhood has a condition that is obvious if you walk five minutes from any of them: excessive and unsustainable infrastructure.

Both the Valdebebas district of Madrid and any of the residential spaces that Más Madrid has proposed to install this type of service, are large stretches of land that do not recommend deciding on any other means of transport than the car.

Its huge streets, with three lanes in each direction, leave a grim image for anyone who doesn't drive a car. Crossing the street involves the saving of six lanes and the huge tracts of land there have left thousands of residents cut off from public transport. As an example, a piece of information: the diameter of a roundabout in the north of Madrid is greater than the entire length of the Puerta del Sol.

In fact, the BRT solution seems ideal because underused lanes are used to connect spaces that are close to each other but far apart in the time invested in public transport. The structure itself, with branches that are further and further away from the metro and the Cercanías, means that the fastest way to move in these spaces is the private vehicle.

Presentation

The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, presented the first Fast Bus last February, to circulate around the city from May. The Madrid councilor advanced the most important features of Madrid's first high-capacity electric bus line, a system that will connect the neighborhoods of Valdebebas and Sanchinarro with the Ramón y Cajal Hospital, through a separate lane and therefore for the first time with traffic light priority.

As the mayor explained, the implementation of this "innovative method", which will allow "to connect Valdebebas with its reference hospital through Sanchinarro in less than 30 minutes", will guarantee punctuality thanks to the priority of the traffic light and the use of the reserved platform. All this, added Almeida, with an investment of 23 million euros "directed both to the conditioning of the roads and to the purchase of the ten buses that will complete this line", this government group continues its commitment to sustainable mobility, which means that the fleet of Madrid municipal buses is "pure hundred percent" It has become the first city in Europe.