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The Minister of Transport Mobility and Urban Agenda Raquel Snchez today inaugurated the new T4 bus terminal at the Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas airport which is being launched after an investment of more than 19 million euros including work supplies and materials. During the act the head of Mitma took the opportunity to reaffirm her and the Governments commitment to promoting intermodality and green mobility as part of the commitment to leave future generations with an infrastructure system that connects the country efficiently sustainable affordable and adapted.This is a commitment to promote collective and sustainable public transport. Our mission is to ensure easy fast and comfortable access for travelers to Madrid airport. So that citizens can go to the airport directly from their communities of origin by bus. And in the future also at high speed the minister stated after recalling that the promotion of intermodality and investment in these sustainability policies are part of Aenas climate change strategy whose main objective is the progressive reduction of CO2 emissions derived from the activity of the airports.As the minister explained the Governments job is to provide adequate space for all the buses that arrive from the different points of both the capital and the rest of the country. Thus with this action Terminal 4 T4 of Barajas is provided with a new bus management area connected in a pedestrian way through existing walkways between the car park and the main building.We are here to take another step in that evolution. In this process of improving its connections and adapting them to the needs of the more than 50 million people who pass through here every year so that they have fast efficient sustainable and collective transport access Raquel Snchez pointed out.the different modesIn addition the owner of Mitma has reported that work is being done to bring the high-speed train to the Airport with an informative study already provisionally approved and published in the BOE which will mean building new infrastructure between Chamartn and Fuente la Mora and subsequently between Fuente la Mora and Hortaleza. Thus some High-Speed services may be extended to the airport services that will have to be combined with the existing Cercanas service.At this point the minister wanted to emphasize the boost that the railway has been given in recent years and recalled the discount on transport passes for citizens that benefit a very important part of society.From the institutions and civil society we promote the use of the train for medium-distance transfers and even long distances as it has been promoted throughout Europe especially in recent years and as this Government has promoted with the bonus of transport passes for citizens that benefit a very important part of society explained the head of Mitma whose department works to promote the development of infrastructure to make it attractive to make longer journeys by train.Regarding the clear commitment to the rail mode Raquel Snchez wanted to clarify that for many transfers there is no alternative by train. In Spain for example part of the population resides in insular regions from which they can only leave by plane or by boat or is originally from other countries and when they go to visit them they need air transport. It is for this reason that from the Ministry we have the responsibility to ensure easy fast and comfortable access for travelers to Madrid airport she pointed out.The new bus terminalThe new bus terminal occupies a land area of 12600 m2 with a two-story building and a roof for maintenance docks and roads. The first floor is reserved for the embarkation and disembarkation of passengers with access through eight gates to the 30 bus docks distributed around the perimeter.The second floor is for waiting and circulating passengers and has a shopping area and a terrace that surrounds the entire building. The new infrastructure has natural lighting in all spaces thanks to three large skylights and glass walls as well as a sustainable green roof complete with bus and flight information screens toilets lifts and mechanical ramps.Regular buses will stop at the new terminal with national and international origin or destination as well as discretionary buses for groups or excursions. At present only the regular lines that operate at the Airport move around one million passengers a year.The new terminal is located next to the P4 car park on the north side module F connected to the corridor that connects the car park with the Terminal T4 building through mechanical ramps moving walkways and a new vertical communication core all this to favor pedestrian connectivity between buildings.The infrastructure will improve the service decongesting the area designated as a bus stop at arrivals of terminal T4 and which has 10 parking bays. In this way the new bus terminal will house regular and occasional services while the stops for transport services between terminals airport transit bus urban and EMT services and shuttles will remain on the roads on floor 0 of the building. with airport car parks.The Adolfo Surez Madrid-Barajas Airport already has two other bus zones one located in terminal T1 with 27 parking bays and a waiting area for buses in terminal T4 with 24 parking spaces91 years connecting peopleIn her speech the minister recalled that this year the Barajas airport celebrates 91 years since it began operating and its evolution has responded to the changes in the needs of citizens and the political will to unite our country by air with the neighbors both the nearest and the farthest. In this way the Adolfo Surez Madrid-Barajas has established itself as a true hub that connects our country with Europe and the world.
