Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelonès) receives almost 3.5 million euros of European funds to promote active and sustainable mobility. It is one of the 120 municipalities in the State that obtain financing from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan to promote mobility that is respectful of the environment.
The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda (Mitma) has provisionally granted the Santa Coloma de Gramenet City Council €3,423,341.44 from the European NextGenerationEU recovery funds to promote active and sustainable mobility in urban centers.
The Ministry has granted 500 million euros of European funds to 120 municipalities throughout Spain, including Santa Coloma, where some 18 million people live.
With these aids, the Ministry will co-finance actions aimed at the purchase of electric urban buses, the deployment of bike lanes, the pedestrian zone of streets, the digitization of mobility services or the implementation of low emission zones, among other projects.
The Mitma has provisionally selected 432 projects among the 679 applications submitted by a total of 188 potential beneficiaries of the program: municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants, province capitals and town halls of more than 20,000 inhabitants that have a collective public transport service. urban interior and a Sustainable Mobility Plan.
Five projects from the Colomense city council have been selected within the framework of this call:
• Urbanización Avenida Generalitat, in the section av. Can Peixauet - c. San Jorge: €1,662,375.15
• Construction of the bicycle lane in the northern sector of the metropolitan bicycle lane: €710,321.11
• Urbanization of Vinyals street: €430,331.82
• Urbanization of Sants street: €382,087.86
• Urbanization of Baró street in section c. Major - c. Virgin of the Angels: €238,225.50
subsidized performances
One of the objectives of the European Union (EU) Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan is to contribute to improving air quality in cities by promoting mobility that is respectful of the environment and the health of people.
With this purpose, the selected initiatives promote the promotion of reliable, affordable, attractive and zero-emission urban public transport systems, as well as the promotion of active mobility (cycling, walking) to reduce the use of private motor vehicles. .
The beneficiary municipalities must justify to the Ministry the fulfillment of the purpose for which the subsidy was granted by providing biannual reports on the status of the projects. As stated in the provisional resolution, the actions must be executed and started up in June 2025. However, the aid will be paid from the Ministry in the form of a single advance payment.
