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Opening of the new section of

Line 2 of the Madrid Metro

On 16 March the president of the Commu-nity of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre inagu-gurated the new section of Line 2 of the Madrid underground system which goes to the Las Rosas district, and opened the four-station expansion of Line 2 of the Me-tro underground system to the Las Rosas district. The expansion was built by FCC.

She was accompanied by the head of the regional Transport and Infrastructure De-partment, Ignacio Echeverría, the head of the regional Environment, Housing and Land Planning Department, María Isabel Mariño, and the mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, other members of the Re-gional Assembly, FCC Chairman Baldome-ro Falcones, FCC Construcción Chairman José Mayor and the company’s managing director, Avelino Acero.

The 4.5-kilometre underground section has four new stations, which have been bapti-zed with the names of La Almudena, Alsa-

A tunnel up to 4.6 Km-long plus more than 4 stations added to Line 2: La Almudena, Alsacia, Avenida de

Guadalajara, and Las Rosas

cia, Avenida de Guadalajara and Las Ro-sas. More than 65,000 people will beneft from the new section.

The run begins in the Bilbao district, where the frst station is located, to facilitate ac-cess to La Almudena Cemetery. From there the tunnel continues beneath calle Nicolás Salmerón to the second station, travels along Avenida de Guadalajara to the third station at the intersection with Avenida de Canillejas to Vicálvaro and fnally crosses the M-40 to reach Paseo de Ginebra, whe-re the fourth station lies.

Madrid’s mayor, Alberto Ruiz Gallardón and Esperanza Aguire, president of the Madrid Regional Government, during the inauguration of the extension of Line 2 of Madrid Metro.