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FCC Construcción’s experience in metro About the Bucharest Metro FCC Construcción has a vast experience in leading this type of projects, since throughout its 120 years of history it has built more than 326 kilometres of subway throughout the world. The company has also carried out important expan- sions in the Metro de Madrid, including MetroSur and the extension of line 10, which totals 31 stations to date. The Bucharest Metro moves more than 750,000 passengers every day, thus becoming the most used means of transport by its inhabi- tants and a reference for Bucha- rest’s people since 1979, despite the fact that the first plans for its de - velopment date back to the 1930s. The growth of the city, leaving asi- de the political tensions of the se- cond half of the century, forced the government of the country and the city to make evident the need to raise its infrastructure. Accordingly, the works began in 1975, to connect the city centre with industrial neighbourhoods such as Mi- litari, Berceni and Titan Balta-Albă. The city currently has 77 kilometres and 63 stations distributed along the subsoil of the entire city. The cost of the single ticket does not exceed 54 cents (2.50 Lei in local currency) and is free for citizens over 70 years old. Metrorex, the company that current- ly operates the Bucharest Metro, prioritized modernity and speed of construction, so most stations lack ornaments or decorative elements. The arrival of democracy to the country meant a breath of fresh air for the network, since after the fall of the Ceausescu regime, in which only three lines were in operation, its number and that of stations increased considerably. Constantin Brâncuși is part of the 10 stations and 7.7 km of tunnels that FCC Construcción has carried out in the subsoil of Bucharest. Likewise, FCC also carried out the tuning up of line 9 of the Barcelona Metro, which currently has 24 stations. In the international sphere, the corporation has developed metropolitan areas such as Athens (Greece); Doha (Qa- tar); Toronto (Canada) and the first and second lines of the Panama Metro. At present, the activity of FCC Construcción continues at full capacity and its workers are immersed in the re- form of lines 2 and 4 of the Lima subway, in Peru; and lines 4, 5 and 6 of the Riyadh subway, in Saudi Arabia, whose project has become the largest engineering and construction contract developed by a Spanish company. C O M M U N I T I E S 55 C O M M U N I T I E S