The latest Commuter Rail Plan, the most up-to-date, is almost 300 pages long. It's the document that details all the railway works planned from now until 2030 to improve the Catalan network: it explains what they consist of, specifies their cost, and establishes a timeline. These range from the most ambitious projects, such as the Sagrera station, the doubling of the R3 line, and the undergrounding of the Montcada station, to much smaller, faster, and even cheaper projects that can significantly improve the network's capacity. One of these smaller planned projects is in Tordera. It's classified under the section of "strategic" works programmed to "improve network capacity" and involves building a siding in front of this station, on the section of the R1 line between Blanes and Maçanet-Massanes. "This section is single-track, without sidings, for a length of more than 15 kilometers," the plan notes. "To facilitate the resolution of incidents that may disrupt the normal operation of the line, it is proposed to reinstate the siding and platform formerly in use at Tordera station," the document continues.

The Zurich Barcelona Marathon 2026 The race will take place on Sunday, March 15th, starting at 8:30 a.m. on Passeig de Gràcia, and will pass through several iconic locations in the city center. Now in its 47th edition, the event is expected to attract more than 30,000 runners and will cause significant disruptions to traffic and public transport, especially on Sunday morning.

To teenagers worried about the ban on social media until the age of sixteen, I would like to say that they will gain valuable time to observe and notice small things that aren't working in their environment. This is the key quality of good professionals, whether they are doctors, train drivers, architects, or truck drivers. By listening and taking notes, they learn exactly where they can add value, and this is a necessary skill for surviving in today's world.

Anyone who has tried to catch a commuter train in recent days could say that commuting steals hours of sleep, both metaphorically and literally. Unprecedented chaos The events of the last two weeks have further highlighted the headache of traveling by commuter train in Catalonia. But this is a situation many had experienced years before the fatal accident in Gelida on January 20th brought everything to a halt. These are citizens from all over the country who have seen the commuter rail chaos become a chronic problem in their daily lives and, tired of watching life pass them by while waiting on a platform or inside a train, have decided to stay away from the commuter rail system.

"What are you saying? What are you saying? You keep repeating the same thing!" the man shouts at the top of his lungs. He has intense blue eyes and a blond mustache straight out of the eighties. The other passengers in the carriage (it's morning, and not many people travel to Barcelona by train) look up from their phones. The man doesn't notice; he acts as if he's alone and shouts even louder. "How can you be so stupid? Can't you see you're telling me the same thing over and over?"

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced during his year-end review before Christmas that a travel pass for public transport throughout Spain will be available starting in 2026. The announcement, which had already been hinted at months earlier by Transport Minister Óscar Puente, comes just days before the end of the year and, therefore, before transport fares are set to increase, following a lengthy political debate about the appropriateness of widespread reductions in train tickets. The pass will cost €60 per month for general travelers and €30 per month for young people up to 26 years old. The plan is for it to come into effect in the second half of January. However, the details of this new transport pricing system are still unclear: for example, what role the autonomous communities will play or how the system will be structured. Avant prices (high-speed trains but regulated at public prices that are also overflowing in Catalonia)

The journey of buses 24 and V19 in Barcelona It's an example, an example of the problems and friction that mass tourism can cause in the city of Barcelona. These are two buses that operate on key routes, because on some stretches they have few or no alternatives, especially this summer, with a central section of L4 closed for construction. But at the same time, they are also the buses that many tourists use to go to Park Güell and the anti-aircraft battery viewpoint on Rovira Hill, a pilgrimage site. Instagrammer misnamed "the Carmel bunkers." And it's in spaces like these two buses where coexistence between citizens and visitors becomes more complicated. The most direct witnesses of this situation—and also some of the victims—are the drivers of the vehicles that make these trips. They often become informants, tour guides, mediators, and security guards. They are forced to do jobs that aren't theirs to try to ensure a minimum level of coexistence on the city's public transport. And when this happens, it means something is wrong.

William Vickrey, Nobel Prize winner in economics in 1996, proposed tolling to control traffic congestion in the 1960s. He was a professor at Columbia University in New York and thought about easing access to Manhattan, with the bottlenecks represented by bridges and tunnels8. Between Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania (where I was a professor), the speaker was taking a long time to arrive and Vickrey stood up and, to entertain the audience, told us a story

It's time to pay again: starting this Tuesday, July 1st, Renfe tickets will no longer be free across the country. The Spanish government is thus ending the massive discount policy it implemented three years ago due to the price spikes caused by the outbreak of the war, but some tickets are no longer free.

The Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) has launched the awareness campaign "On the bus, stop abuse" to prevent and combat sexual assault and abuse on public transport. Under the slogan "In the event of harassment, we act as an AGENT on the bus," the initiative aims to involve users, especially those on buses, so that if they detect inappropriate behavior, they can report the situation.

Change in rail transport discounts, which will no longer be free in July. The Regional Minister for Territory, Sílvia Paneque, rectified this and announced changes this Wednesday in the Government's control session. Paneque confirmed that the discounts for regional trains will be increased from the initially planned 40% to 60% starting in July. The Minister stated this in a response to ERC and clarified that this will correct the Comparative "grievance" between users of regional trains and commuter trains.

The Mediterranean Corridor works that Adif is carrying out in Sant Vicenç de Calders since the fall of last year Not only are they generating service interruptions and disruptions, alternative plans, and incidents: the works are also worrying experts about the final outcome they will have when they are finished. Various platforms defending users and academics consulted by this newspaper fear that, once the works at this station are completed, the result will be "worse for users" and that a "bottleneck" will be created that will greatly complicate operations in the area.

Mobile support for title validation has been available for two and a half years It was only available for Android devices with NFC technology — a technology for connecting devices and exchanging data in a confined environment — although the card could be recharged and consulted using all smartphones. Now, the T-mobility Wallet is already available for iPhone, a new feature that improves the travel experience for public transport users. The possibility of validating tickets directly with the mobile phone, without the need for a physical card, arrived on the iPhone on December 27 to offer greater comfort and security to travelers.

Apple has withdrawn the T-Mobilitat application from its software download market, the Apple Store, which allows users to access public transport in Barcelona by validating their ticket with an iPhone. The long-awaited app, which Android users have been using for three years, became available for download just a month and a half ago, but this Friday it disappeared from the virtual application store for iPhones. However, the Metropolitan Transport Authority (ATM) assures that this situation is "temporary" and clarifies that travellers who already have T-Mobilitat downloaded on their iPhone can continue using it, as it works correctly.

It's only been a year since he was appointed director of the Autoritat del Transport Metropolità. Before that, Manuel Valdés - an engineer by training - had spent 17 years at Barcelona City Hall, where he promoted the new bus network, the low-emission zone, the superblocks and the tram along the Diagonal. All this experience, he says, has helped him to delve into the "engine room" that is the ATM: "In the morning I want to see the message that everything is working normally."

Delays in the roll-out of new public transport ticketing system T-Mobilitat have led to four changes in the awarded contract – three of them in the last two years – and huge cost overruns. There is no unanimity when it comes to specifying how much the bill adds up to (some people already put it at over €116m, double the initial price), but what had gone unnoticed by everyone was the cost of maintaining the old cardboard tickets with a magnetic stripe for longer than expected.

Little by little users return to public transport but demand is still far from the activity before the pandemic. There are still 15% of regular users who have either given up or are still waiting to see how the epidemic evolves before deciding to travel for fear of contagion, despite the fact that, as the authorities insist, there is no scientific evidence that the collective convoys are a focus of infection in Catalonia or anywhere else in the world. According to the latest data, demand remains low: on Tuesday after the Easter holidays, demand stood at 56% compared to the data of 2019, as the Minister of Territory and Sustainability, Damià Calvet, reported on Friday in the presentation of the institutional campaign Un viatge segur to strengthen trust to get back on trains and buses.