{"id":4366,"date":"2020-12-12T19:12:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T18:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/?p=4366"},"modified":"2020-12-16T15:04:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T14:04:49","slug":"la-sagrera-the-station-of-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/la-sagrera-the-station-of-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"La Sagrera, the station of stations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The railway, in its endeavour to facilitate public transportation, has been opening new stations in cities in order to connect them to the world. Since the days of coal, travellers arriving at stations have discovered the atmosphere of a place through the introduction provided by the platforms, marquees, halls and restaurants of the major stations. This is how it was and still is: the entrance to a great station is also the entrance to the city, making it the duty of stations to bid travellers a friendly welcome and farewell, offering convenience and positive memories that enhance the reputation of the location.<\/p>\n

A great station cannot be separate from the urban fabric that surrounds it. A station is a city, as are its entrances and its railway yard, which have a decisive impact on the character of the neighbourhood to which it belongs and on the layout of the roads.<\/p>\n

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1. View of the roof 2. Platforms for high-speed services 3. Floor of the general hall 4. Platforms for Rodalies de Catalunya and regional train services. \/ INFOGRAPHIC_BSAV<\/p><\/div>\n

A great railway station is also the main node that must make possible, in an orderly and efficient way, the routes that enable the mobility of the population. The need to travel must be satisfied by making an effort to minimise the external costs that transport entails, seeking formulas that are increasingly conscious of respecting the environment. The successful combination of different modes of transport in a single journey, taking advantage of the strengths of each one, has made multimodality a solution to be taken into account by regional planners, and it is in the design of large stations that this concept is of key importance.<\/p>\n

Main node, city and gateway. The new intermodal station of La Sagrera, located in the Barcelona neighbourhood of the same name, aspires to all this<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Main node, city and gateway. The new La Sagrera intermodal station, located in a neighbourhood in Barcelona bearing the same name, aspires to all these objectives. This aspiration is fully justified by the need to complement the existing node of Sants station and by the vocation to finish building a part of the city of Barcelona that over time had become a border separating two neighbourhoods: La Sagrera and Sant Mart\u00ed de Proven\u00e7als.<\/p>\n

Sants station node, in operation since the 1970s, was adapted in 2008 to host Barcelona\u2019s high-speed services. The station, which had 12 tracks with platforms, was expanded to 14 tracks, leaving 8 in Iberian gauge for conventional services and 6 in international gauge for high-speed services. There is no escaping the fact that practically all the commuter and regional service lines pass through this station, which is connected to two underground lines and is centrally located in the city, almost equidistant from the two arteries that cross Barcelona: Gran Via and Diagonal.<\/p>\n