Overview
- City officials said the Governing Board approved the urbanization tender, with publication to the official bulletin next to open the bidding process.
- Urbanism chief Borja Carabante said surface works are slated to begin in September on three artificial hills formed from reused tunnel spoil at the former Iberdrola substation site, coordinated with ongoing tunnel construction.
- Tunnel works continue with 1,802 of 2,009 piles installed (89.7%), 36.5% of the cover completed, and 253 meters excavated, and the city targets opening to traffic before year‑end if schedules hold.
- The design includes eight solar pergolas with 1,055 panels and six inverters, an estimated 561.43 MWh of annual generation for tunnel systems, and geothermal thermoactivation to climatize the Ángel González Library.
- Mobility upgrades feature a protected bidirectional bike corridor of over three kilometers with links to the Anillo Verde Ciclista and a tunnel with three lanes per direction where the two center lanes operate as bus‑HOV to cut interurban bus travel times.