Road and rail access to the port of Barcelona are a little closer to becoming a reality. The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda has put out to tender the drafting of the construction projects for 12.2 million after two and a half years of work and coordination between the technicians of the various administrations involved.
The company that wins the competition will have three years to complete the construction projects, which are two parallel: one for road access and the other for railway access. They will define the works to be carried out and their process, based on the solutions proposed in the final document of the basic project, agreed upon by the ministry itself, the railway infrastructure administrator (Adif), State Ports, the port of Barcelona, Ferrocarrils and the Territori department of the Generalitat.
As La Vanguardia reported last June, they are opting for an ingenious exit in a very complex place due to the little space available, making a sandwich with the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat (FGC) tracks in the entry section to the port infrastructure. . Cars and trucks will circulate in both directions on a viaduct above and freight trains will be buried below.
The construction of railway accesses, with both international and Iberian gauge, is a fundamental piece for connecting the port with the Mediterranean corridor. For its part, the new highway, which will enter the port through the old channel of the Llobregat River, will allow the Litoral ring road to be decongested from the high truck traffic it supports thanks to the nearly ten kilometer road with two lanes in each direction planned from Cornellà.
Both the road and railway projects have been entrusted to Adif, which yesterday approved the putting out to competition for the editorial team in its board of directors. The railway ring facilities, on the other hand, will be developed by the port of Barcelona.
Given that the drafting of the projects will take another three years, the Ministry wants to advance the preliminary work to advance work at the beginning of next year. The first movements will consist of diversions of services in that part of the Free Zone. It will be the advance payment for the actual construction of the accesses, which will involve three years of work and an investment of nearly 700 million euros including the works, expropriations and the railway infrastructure in the interior. If nothing goes wrong, all of this should be a reality in 2029.
