The Verdaguer station of L4 will be out of service for two months

BarcelonaLine 4 of the metro will once again suffer a summer with works. The director of projects for the Department of Territory, Encarna Ramos, explained this Tuesday during the neighborhood council of the Dreta de l'Eixample that the Verdaguer station on the yellow line will be out of service for two months. As she detailed, it will not be possible to access the platform of this line from July 6th and for eight weeks. The works, however, will not force the interruption of the train service, which will run through the station, but without stopping.

This is a new phase of the works to improve the accessibility of the Verdaguer metro station, one of the most important interchanges in the network. The eight weeks that the station will be out of service are to be used to demolish the current fixed stairs from the hall of the Sant Joan promenade access to the platforms, and to carry out the necessary work to install two elevators —one for each platform— and new escalators.

According to Ramos, once these works are completed, the aim is to reopen the corridor that connects line 4 and line 5, which has been closed since the end of September 2025. Since then, users who want to transfer between the yellow line and the blue line have to do so externally. In this case, the works have also been aimed at improving accessibility by eliminating all the steps that were in the interchange and overcoming the level differences by raising the level of part of the halls and the corridor.

The future elevator

Once the passageway is open, Ramos explained that it will also serve the elevator that will be installed on the Besòs corner of Provença and Bailèn streets. Until now, despite being one of the main interchange stations on the network, Verdaguer was one of Barcelona's metro stations that was not yet accessible. An identical case to what is happening at Plaça de Sants station, where line 1 and line 5 converge and which is also under construction. Indeed, just this Monday, the passageway was closed.

Last summer, Verdaguer station was already the protagonist of the main disruption caused by the traditional maintenance work carried out on the network, taking advantage of the months with less intensive use. At that time, however, Verdaguer became the last stop on the line, which was cut off for weeks from this station to Trinitat Nova.