GRANADA| Metro

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Hello.

The new Granada metro in southern Spain has started its tests.

Here is its route:

Originally Posted by Boltzman

En la página de la Junta puedes verlo:

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And here´s the tram:

Originally Posted by Think

[Sunfuns]

So they have managed to finish it after all? I remember reading a year or two ago that it was half done when the crisis started, workers not paid any more, city bankrupt and prospects for finishing it any time soon close to zero...

[OriK]

I hope that won't be the commercial speed

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Originally Posted by Sunfuns

So they have managed to finish it after all? I remember reading a year or two ago that it was half done when the crisis started, workers not paid any more, city bankrupt and prospects for finishing it any time soon close to zero...

Yes, they´ve been able to keep up with the works. Actually, the tram isn´t mainly funded by the Town Council, but by the Andalusian Regional Government.
The line isn´t finished yet though (albeit it is obviously advanced), it will be finished by the first half of 2014.

This line is not touristic, in fact it avoids the old town, where actually it would have caused road traffic trouble, since the streets in the old town are very narrow and have loads of twists and corners, but it connects the stadium, the university, the railway station, the bus station, and three of Granada´s main suburban towns (Armilla, Maracena, and Albolote).

Originally Posted by OriK

I hope that won't be the commercial speed

I´m sure it will be THAT speed. Thus you can see better the francoblocks.