The Community of Madrid studies extending Metro L1 to Madrid Nuevo Norte to facilitate the mobility of more than 175,000 citizens
Today, President Díaz Ayuso announced this initiative during her appearance to take stock of the two years of the Legislature. The measure provides for the construction of three new stations: Centro de Negocios, Fuencarral Sur and Fuencarral Norte. The regional government is also working on the modification of the route of L4 to integrate the Bambú stop into its route and for the end of the line to be Chamartín, instead of Pinar de Chamartín. In September, the project will be submitted for public information so that users and interested public and private entities can submit comments and suggestions.
Today, the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, announced that the regional government is studying the extension of Metro Line 1 to the Madrid Nuevo Norte urban development to facilitate the mobility of more than 175,000 potential daily passengers, who will have a direct connection to Sol, Gran Vía or Atocha.
According to the head of the regional government, in her appearance to assess the two years of the Legislature, the extension will start from Chamartín (currently L1 and 10) to continue the route through the three new stations to be built by the Regional Ministry of Housing, Transport and Infrastructure, with the provisional names of Centro de Negocios, Fuencarral Sur and Fuencarral Norte.
At the same time, the Directorate General for Infrastructures is studying the modification of the L4 route to integrate the Bambú stop into its route and for the end of the line to be Chamartín, instead of Pinar de Chamartín, which would eliminate the current transfer. With this extension, L4 would have 25 stations and 16.8 kilometres.
In order to carry out the reorganisation, the regional executive will submit this project to public information from September onwards so that interested public and private entities, as well as citizens, can submit comments and suggestions to help improve the planning.
In an initial phase, work will be carried out to redistribute lines 1 and 4, which could be operational in 2030, and subsequently the connection with Fuencarral Norte will be built. The work programme will be adapted to the availability of land in the Madrid Nuevo Norte urban development necessary to undertake it.
Line 1 was the first to be built and put into operation in 1919 and in 2024 it was the second most used line with more than 100 million passengers. In its more than one hundred years of history, many improvement and innovation works have been carried out, including the extension of platforms in the 1960s, the consolidation of the tunnel in 2016 and the recent remodelling works in 2023. The 4 was inaugurated in 1944 and originally had only eight stations. In the last year, 42,000 people resorted to using it to get around.
