The extension of the historic Metro Line 1 -the first suburban line- towards Madrid Nuevo Norte has a concrete translation in the form of an announcement: the Community of Madrid has already started the procedures for the construction of the future Metro depot that will serve the urban development.
The last Governing Council of the year has authorized the first contract to tender the drafting of the project with an investment of 803,789 euros. These future facilities, which will have a surface area of approximately 15,000 square meters and 26,000 square meters below ground level, will be used to store, deposit and maintain the trains that will run on this extension of Line 1.
According to the regional government’s calculations, this measure will facilitate the mobility of more than 175,000 citizens who are expected to live in the future urban area. The extension will start from Chamartín, where it will connect with lines L1 and L10.
The route will continue its route through three new stations: provisionally they will be called Centro de Negocios, Fuencarral Sur and Fuencarral Norte.
The Metro de Madrid depots that have already disappeared
In the communiqué issued by the Community of Madrid informing about the project, it is also pointed out that “these new depots will be added to the 14 depots that Metro de Madrid currently has, strategically distributed throughout the region, which together occupy 1.4 million square meters”.
In this calculation, unlike in the collective memory -especially in that of the neighbors who fought to avoid its demolition- the historical depots of Cuatro Caminos de Antonio Palacios will be missing, in whose place both the City Council and the Community are trying to move forward in the courts the construction of an urban development with 443 houses.