Boulevard rail is called to be a great avenue Burgos backbone from east to west but those are wrong that they believe will be a bypass to relieve traffic problems experienced by capital. All documents prepared by the Swiss architectural firm Herzog and de Meuron, from the Master Plan until the final development project, have always stressed that the boulevard is a public space, with public ownership of public transport and sustainable mobility through the wide bike path and pedestrian areas, which have priority over private vehicles, will have only one lane in each direction.
Only then how, in the narrower sections continue the space for pedestrians, bicycles and buses (or who knows if in the future, tram) in front of the parking on both sides of the new road. That is, the boulevard will not only most urban transformation of Burgos, which will involve the redevelopment of land formerly occupied by the railroad, but forced to change the 'chip' and think that the opening of the Boulevard will the biggest change in the mobility of the city recent decades.
The boulevard will have a modern furniture benches, litter bins, fountains, but, undoubtedly, one of the most striking features is the design of transit stops. Cellophane area between the street and Juan Ramón Jiménez, at the height of the road to Logroño, had 22 shelters, eleven in each direction. The Swiss study of architects has designed three types different stops, which are randomly placed with a distance of between 300 and 400 meters in urban sections and every 500 or 600 meters in open areas of countryside.
The circular is the largest and surprises with its curved concrete structure with a bank in a high back and a large deck to protect the traveler from adverse weather conditions. There will be eight along the Boulevard and move to urban areas where there are parks, large public spaces and rooms. The longitudinal 7 stops, smaller than the previous although similar, have a rectangular geometry that allows its location on narrower sidewalks. The umbrella type, smaller, Painted steel is accompanied by small white circular benches. 7 The location of these shelters will be in large areas of parkland and open spaces.
The facility, which will be the last of the work of the boulevard, not much complexity involved stops because they are manufactured.
For now, the foundation works and services of public transport stops. All of them will have a network connection and telephone communications in the future if it is necessary to place a dispenser of tickets or ticket control, ahead of a possible implementation of the tram. In addition, each marquee will have its own lighting and water drainage cover.
Everything is designed for public transport that will flow along the 11.5 kilometers (from the new AVE train station to the University area) for a dedicated lane with a "platform reserved for the efficient running of the system ' . The Swiss architects idea is that an avenue of quality and comfort citizen requires a quality public transport.
Bridging the gap, would have a bus line Gamonal, with a frequency of ten minutes, but with maximum punctuality. Today, only achieved with a traffic control system that ensures efficiency, thanks to have priority in all crosses. This will meet the next generation tram wheel, which accommodates both hard surfaces like asphalt or stone as soft, to be able to move on the lawn or meadow.
guided transport option would avoid aggressive intervention in the parks of La Quinta and the expected front of the old Indasa. Burgos would take a picture of a tram that goes over the grass. Herzog and De Meuron
pose for a streetcar boulevard, similar to those in Clermont-Ferrand (France) and Padua (Italy), being a sustainable transport and environmentally friendly. But the final decision on this matter for the City of Burgos.
platform why public transport will run on the boulevard will be concrete instead of asphalt, a material that prevents wear problems. The previous work of pipes, with the power and communications, is already done. If you finally reach the tram would only be necessary to mill a small guide in the middle of the road to place a rail. The energy comes to this type of trolley by the pantograph, which would not be a problem since the cable cover that serves the entire street lighting is tough to hold the electric wires.
cost of the tram. Much has been made of the cost to implement the tram in Burgos. A study by the University amounted to 200 million euros the implementation of this new type of transport until the mayor Juan Carlos Aparicio spoke of an investment of between 9 and 12 million per kilometer. Sources consulted by DB explained that this expenditure is necessary when you have to make detours of networking, communications and other infrastructure. In the case of Burgos, all this work already performed on account of the development of the boulevard, so the very low budget by requiring only moving part, the tram itself, plus a garage to house the machines.
Fotografia: Rodrigo Alberto
Haydee Milanés 
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