Valencia City Hall has designed a special operation to Valencia Marathon Trinidad Alfonso Zurich, which will be celebrated next Sunday, December 7. The event, which will bring together 36,000 international runners, will result in the closure of streets and the elimination of queues. … EMT bus.
The test will begin at 8:15 a.m. Sunday, in the Plaza del Maratón, with a total of nine departures, and it is expected that it will end around 3:10 p.m. inside the City of Arts and Sciences. The traffic cuts necessary to facilitate the preparations and running of this sporting event will begin on Friday.
Thus, the Friday December 5from 10:00 p.m., the Montolivet bridge was closed to road traffic in both directions and the Professor López Piñero road towards the city center for the assembly of the test exit arch. Likewise, intermittent cuts were made in both directions of avenues Germans Maristes and Institut Obrer de Valencia (and not transversal) from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. on Saturday.
These roads will be closed to road traffic again from 10 p.m. on Saturday 6 and until 2:00 p.m. on Sunday 7, with the exception of the cross sections which will open from 10:30 a.m. and the section between Ausiàs March and Bomber Ramón Duart which will open at 1:00 p.m.
Streets closed in Valencia for the 2025 Marathon
The cuts to accommodate the Marathon route, on the same Sunday, will begin one hour before the start of the race, and during the Marathon the direction of the Menéndez Pidal-Tirso de Molina underpass will remain reversed, allowing traffic to exit from the south to the north of the city.
Jesús Carbonell indicated that on the occasion of the marathon, the Municipal Transport Company has also planned new routes on a total of 32 lines, from this Friday until the end of the race, “to bring users as close as possible to their destination.”
EMT lines removed by the Valencia marathon
On Sunday, queues will be eliminated C1, 19, 30, 31, 32, 40, 67, 70, 71, 73, C2, 81, 92, 93, 94, 95 and 98. However, citizens can use lines 35, 99 and C3 to get to the departure area and the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, and all information can be consulted in the “Last Minute” section of the EMT website, in the App and on social networks.
Concerning tram line 4 Metrovalencethe passage of the Marathon will force traffic to be interrupted from 8:00 a.m. to 11:20 a.m. between Pont de Fusta and Doctor Lluch, traffic will therefore only circulate between Mas del Rosari-Vicent Andrés Estellés and Pont de Fusta until this time. As for line 6, it will not run between 7:30 a.m. and 11:20 a.m.
Line 8, for its part, will not start running until 12:30 p.m., when full service will be restored, and line 10 (Alacant-Natzaret) will provide service between the Alacant and Amado Granell-Montolivet stations until Sunday 10:00 a.m., and from that moment it will complete the entire route.
Where to park at the Valencia Marathon
The councilor also indicated that the municipal council will allow, from 6:00 a.m. Sunday, parking lots Oceanographic and the Aqua Shopping Center for Marathon participants.
“Other possible options are the parking lot at the general cemetery, from where you can take line EMT 99 to get closer to the starting point of the race, as well as a parking lot in Natzaret (rue Les Barraques del Figuero) from where you can take line EMT 4,” he explained.
Where can you cross
Finally, there will be three pedestrian crossing points during the Marathon: the metro underpass on Xàtiva Street, Colón Street with Sorní and Colón Street with Porta de la Mar. At these points there will be service assistants and civil protection volunteers.
All information on traffic incidents in the affected areas can be followed in real time on the Google Maps and Waze.
And for more information, visit the Moovit website.
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