📋 Tender Overview
This work will begin on 1 March at El Casar station (Getafe) and will last around six months. The L3 extension project has a budget of €110 million and when completed will directly benefit one million passengers. Free alternative buses will be available to users for the section where the service is suspended between Juan de la Cierva and Los Espartales stations.
On 1 March, the Community of Madrid will begin the final phase to provide MetroSur with a second connection to the Spanish capital, linking lines 3 and 12 of the underground network. This link will directly benefit more than one million users who will be able to use the new route after the summer. The global project has been assigned a budget of more than €110 million.
In order to carry out the final works, the El Casar station in Getafe will be affected, so the service between the Juan de la Cierva and Los Espartales stations will be suspended for the next six months, once the works have begun. In this time, Metro will provide passengers with free alternative buses that will cover the affected section.
For its construction and due to the configuration of the track equipment, it is compulsory to extend the tunnel by approximately 65 metres. The work to be undertaken involves the dismantling of existing installations (communications, electrification or energy, among others) as well as the dismantling of the existing tracks and their subsequent reinstatement. For this reason, it is not possible to keep trains running at the two points mentioned above.
The regional government has already built 2.23 kilometres of the 2.6 kilometres that complete this infrastructure for the extension of Metro Line 3 to link the Villaverde Alto and El Casar stations (L12), which means that MetroSur will have a second connection to the centre of Madrid, in addition to the one that already exists at Puerta del Sur (L10 and 12).
With this extension, El Casar will become a hub for public transport modal interchange for citizens who will be able to access Metro lines 3 and 12, the Renfe suburban train line, intercity buses 447, 448, 488 and N805, and two urban lines, as well as having a surface parking lot with more than 500 spaces with a recharging area for electric vehicles.
