Line 3 of the Madrid Metro runs from the northwest to the south, linking the stations of Moncloa and Villaverde Alto. The new 2.6 km extension being built by Azvi to El Casar (Getafe) will benefit more than a million people from Getafe, Leganés, Móstoles, Alcorcón and Fuenlabrada, who will be able to reach Puerta del Sol in the capital in just half an hour, as well as the 47,000 residents of Madrid’s Villaverde Alto neighbourhood. Action financed by the European Union Next Generation – Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Government of Spain in collaboration with the General Directorate of Collective Transport Infrastructure of the Ministry of Housing, Transport and Infrastructure of the Community of Madrid. The extension of Line 3 of the Madrid metro will connect Villaverde Alto station with the new El Casar station, which will allow connection with Metro line 12 and Local Train line C3 by means of a pedestrian walkway and a railway connection tunnel with the Metrosur line. For the new section of Metro Line 3, in addition to the new terminal station at El Casar, there are 4 emergency exits, 2 ventilation shafts, 1 pumping shaft, 2 access ramps and 1 working shaft, and all the necessary installations to make the new line extension ready for operation, such as electrification, railway signalling and installation of slab track. The section is 2,700 m long and is entirely in tunnels: Madrid Metro | Line 3 extension
Villaverde Alto – El Casar
Azvi
Description of the work
2.62 km
LONG
Spain
COUNTRY
€110
MILLION
