The project to build a boulevard between Alcalá and Cibeles is moving away due to the possible effects this would have on the capital’s already complicated traffic, made worse by the major works underway. The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, explained this Tuesday after the City Council that its execution depends on a “final evaluation of Mobility” to determine a date. However, when asked about whether the work will be carried out within the framework of this mandateAlmeida responded that it depends on “the conviction that there will be no impact on mobility greater than that of Madrid currently.”
This end of the year and the beginning of next year there are some occupations due to works in Madrid such as those of María de Molina and the surroundings of the Santiago Bernabéu stadium. Metro line 6 has also been reopened, which will facilitate the flow of travelers who were traveling on the surface and will now return to the metro. But the mayor admitted that he was going continue to have occupations in Conde de Casal and occupations will also begin in Atocha and surrounding areas requested by Adif.
These requests from Adif were the first reason why the work delay was reported in September. The entity dependent on the Ministry of Transport asked the Town Hall for public road space to expand the station’s track stock. Today, the complicated traffic in Madrid in 2026 due to the burying of the A-5, the revetment of Ventas, the burying of Castellana and other works like the Conde de Casal interchange was what pushed Almeida to reevaluate whether to add additional work to the daily maze Madrid drivers.
A 2026 with traffic despite the end of work at the Bernabéu
In this sense, Almeida recognized that 2025 was a complicated year in terms of traffic and predicted a similar year 2026 since the three major works will maintain their cuts. The A-5 and Castellana total cuts and the Ventas night cuts. He first thanked them for their “patience and understanding in the face of all the urban transformations underway”. “It is obvious that in 2025, traffic will be affected. Three works as monumental as Ventas, the A-5 and the Castellana Nord metro have generated problems,” he continued.
He thus reiterated the Town Hall’s efforts to minimize them and the desire to continue working to mitigate them. “The mobility models we are working on have made it possible to guarantee mobility even in these conditions. Madrid never stopped“, he stressed, highlighting the plans to strengthen public transport launched to encourage Madrilenians to leave their cars at home and thus reduce traffic jams.
In this sense, he highlighted “the massive use of EMT public transport by the Madrid population”, since EMT buses have exceeded their historic passenger record. A week before the end of the year, exceeds 2025 record of 476 million trips. “It has been a unique year for the EMT, full of challenges, with the highest demands and, always, with the trust of Madrilenians,” highlighted the Mobility Delegate, Borja de Carabante, on his social networks. For what is expected
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