The transfer of the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys to Futbol Club Barcelona so that the first team can play their matches there for the 2023-2024 season, while the Camp Nou remodeling works are carried out, will require an investment of 5,899,100 euros in the renovation plan. Montjuïc mobility. Most of the actions will remain permanently once Barça returns to its habitual residence and the City Council will contribute 2,578,000 euros to the common cause.
The conditions and financing of the mobility plan are established in a collaboration agreement signed by both parties and published yesterday. The document, signed among others by the president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, and the manager of the Urban Planning area of the City Council, Sònia Frias, starts from the verification that the celebration of the Barça matches will cause the displacement to the Estadi of a large number of people, which will require carrying out actions to adapt the public space to order the traffic of people and vehicles.
The agreement warns that the mobility plan presented by Barça and validated by the municipal technicians does not include "the probable indiscipline of car parking that will occur outside the restricted area", indiscipline for which other measures will have to be provided. corrective mechanisms.
The collaboration agreement between Barça and the City Council is valid until the end of the 2023-2024 season, until June 30 of next year, but it can be extended with the agreement of both parties, depending on the progress of the works on the Camp Nou.
The document makes the obligations of each of the parties very clear. The City Council will be responsible in the first instance for the cost of the extraordinary services for each match day, but will issue an invoice to the club so that it pays these expenses.
The City Council will carry out, among other interventions, the installation of three new traffic lights at pedestrian crossings (with a total cost of 300,000 euros); the improvement of itineraries (680,000); the layout of a new bike lane from Plaza Espanya to Miramar (2,090,000); the installation of Bicing stations (200,000) and maintenance of the service (288,000); seven new bus stop shelters (70,000); eight variable informative signs (240,000), eight traffic control cameras (160,000) and parking spaces for bicycles and electric scooters (50,000) and motorcycles (60,000). The cost of some of these operations, such as installing informative signs and traffic cameras, will ultimately be borne by the sports entity.
The agreement provides that FC Barcelona will pay the City Council 1.8 million euros corresponding to the difference in the cost of the actions that the Consistory will carry out and the municipal contribution during the first quarter of this year.
With regard to infrastructures and services that are not managed by the City Council, Barça must sign agreements with its managers, the municipal company BSM (escalators at a cost of 259,000 euros; rental of the Sot del Migdia car park for 105,000 euros; and civic traffic and surveillance agents for 270,000 euros) and with public transport operators to reinforce the offer on match days. In this sense, Barça will assume the annual bill for the reinforcement of the Montjuïc funicular (150,000 euros) and the metro (300,000), as well as the shuttle bus service (420,000 euros). The agreement provides for the possibility of extending the metro hours – paying for Barça – if so required by the programming of football matches in Gulf time.
