Changes will be made to the service on tram lines T4, T5 and T6 from next Thursday 7 March until Sunday 10 March. The works for the installation of the catenary-free system on the tracks and the commissioning of the Glòries electrical substation, part of phase 1 of the actions to connect the tram lines along Avinguda Diagonal, require alterations to the route of the Trambesòs lines at Plaça de les Glòries. In order to minimise the impact on users, the works have been scheduled for continuous 24-hour-a-day implementation over three consecutive days.

The initial work will make it necessary to terminate the service on lines T4 and T5 at 10 p.m. on Thursday 7 March. As usual, the service on line T6 will also end at 10 p.m. On 8 March, the service will resume at the usual time of 5 a.m.

The two most important changes will affect the service from 8 to 10 March:

The T4 Glòries stop will be moved from its current location in front of Els Encants to be placed provisionally in its future location, on the south side of the square, by Disseny HUB Barcelona. In this area of the square, the trams on line T4 will run in both directions on a single track (the track closest to the coast), which could alter the frequencies of the trams.

While it is in its provisional location, there will be no passenger information or operational ticket vending machines at the stop, and users will have to enter and exit through the platform on the side closest to the coast.

To facilitate these works, the service on lines T5 and T6 will terminate at La Farinera, with no service on the last section (La Farinera - Glòries).

Finally, on Sunday 10 March, line T4 will be closed from approximately 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. due to the Barcelona Marathon. It is recommended to use lines T5 and T6 for trips between Besòs and Glòries, or Metro line 4, which has stations in Ciutadella|Vila Olímpica, Besòs, Selva de Mar and El Maresme|Fòrum.

 

Information for users

Over the days of changes to the service, TRAM will place personnel in the affected area (La Farinera and Glòries) to provide information to users and ensure the flow of pedestrian traffic.

As of this Tuesday, the changes will be notified via the loudspeakers and leaflets on the trams, as well as signs and instructions at the stops.

The Metroplitan Transport Authority, Barcelona City Council and TRAM will also provide information through their websites and social media channels.

Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC), TUSGSAL, Dbus, Emtusa, Alsa, TRAM, Sagalés and Vectalia have signed a partnership agreement to facilitate the inter-company mobility of female workers of any of these eight public transport operators who are victims of gender-based violence.

The aim of the agreement is to offer alternative employment to female workers who are victims of gender-based violence, helping them to move away from their aggressor through safe access to other social protection measures. In this way, if any of the partner companies finds that it has a female employee who is considered to be a victim of gender-based violence, she will be able to contact the rest of the signatories to the agreement and receive proposals for alternative job positions.

The possibility of offering alternative employment, as included in this agreement, is based on the mandate and special protection granted by Organic Law 1/2004 on comprehensive protection measures against gender-based violence for female workers. The Law expressly contemplates the right of female workers who are victims of gender-based violence to relocate, as well as the right to unemployment if they need to terminate their current contract. Already in 2018, the Sectoral Public Administration Conference reached an agreement on the protection of female public workers for mobility and special measures between the different state administrations.

The eight Spanish transport operators undertake to offer a position of employment as similar as possible to the position that the worker wishes to leave, and to proceed to incorporate her into the new company, although the worker’s original position will also be held for her should she wish to return. The agreement includes the creation of a working group or committee made up of one representative from each of the operators that will assess all the requests received, looking at the professional profile of the worker and the possible job positions that could be offered.

 

This partnership agreement was signed as a result of the initiative put forward and promoted by representatives of the member companies within the framework of the Mobility and Gender Committee of the ATUC (Spanish Urban and Metropolitan Public Transport Association). The signing ceremony, which took place at the FGC offices in Sarrià, was attended by the president of Ferrocarrils, Toni Segarra i Barreto, the director of the Administrative Management and People Area of DIREXIS TUSGSAL, Francisco Rodríguez Cazorla, the managing director of Dbus, Igor González Aranburu, the managing director of EMTUSA, Juan José Piniella Aranda, the director of Service Improvement of Alsa, Paula Bouzada Outeda, the managing director of TRAM Operadora, Xavier León Benítez, the CEO of Sagalés, Ramón Sagalés Orteu, and the Director of Organization and People of Vectalia, Marc Mascareñas Sarda.

Xavier León Benítez noted that “For TRAM, this agreement is very important because it is framed within our existing initiatives carried out to tackle gender violence, and we believe it is a good tool to help victims. Furthermore, it is important to highlight that the different operators have a united front on this issue.”

The event was also attended by the Secretary General of the ATUC, Jesús Herrero, the Chair of the ATUC Mobility and Gender Committee, María José Ajuriaguerra Uribe, and representatives of the companies that have formed the committee.

TRAM has signed an agreement with Club Juventud Badalona, the city’s historic basketball club, in order to visibilise the tram as an
accessible mode of public transport close to the Pavelló Olímpic among the club’s supporters and visitors. In fact, TRAM line T5, which ends at the Gorg stop, is just 400 metres from the arena and connects it with Plaça de les Glòries in Barcelona, as well as
passing through Sant Adrià de Besòs.

The annual agreement includes the use by TRAM of three of the arena’s advertising boards and presence on the club’s digital channels. The standard boards will display the TRAM logo, while the LED screen will show useful information for fans coming to the matches by tram. In addition, in return for TRAM’s sponsorship, the company’s employees will have the chance to watch some home matches, with 4 season tickets per season to be raffled internally.

TRAM is working on these marketing agreements to bring the brand to upcoming events in the tram’s area of influence, to raise awareness of this sustainable transport option and to consolidate its use on both work days and weekends.

The Club is working to promote sustainable transport to ensure that its supporters choose the best possible way to reach the arena. The agreement also includes an increase in the frequency of the trams on the busiest days of the season.

On Sunday 11 February the service on TRAM line T4 will be modified to accomodate the Barcelona Half Marathon, specifically along Avinguda Meridiana and Avinguda Diagonal.

Between 7:45 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. there will be no service between any stops on line T4. Between 12:30 p.m. and 1 p.m. the service is scheduled to resume between the Estació de Sant Adrià and Glòries stops. From 1 p.m. onwards the service is expected to resume on the entire T4 line, once all the runners have crossed the finishing line.

During the interruption the service on line T6 will be stepped up, while the rest of the tram network lines will operate as usual.
TRAM reminds users that these timetables are approximate and will depend on the progress of the Barcelona Half Marathon and the instructions received from the race organisers.

Mobility is one of the critical aspects to be tackled when it comes to combating social exclusion. The project “Access to mobility for unhoused people,” launched by Sant Joan de Déu Hospital with the support of Moventia and TRAM,
helps to reduce this inequality faced by a large number of people by facilitating the use of public transport.

The initiative aims to provide free access to public transport in the city of Barcelona and its surrounding areas to homeless people in the different direct assistance programmes run by Sant Joan de Déu Social Services Barcelona, so that they can travel to their training, work or job search activities and medical appointments, regain their network of social and family relationships, take part in activities to strengthen socialisation (such as leisure and cultural activities) and any other tasks or activities coordinated with the professionals at Sant Joan de Déu to help them get their lives back on track.

Moventia and TRAM have been supporting the project for seven years as part of the
actions that both of them carry out as socially responsible companies. Their involvement helps to fund almost the entire annual cost of the project to facilitate access to public transport for the people assisted by Sant Joan de Déu Hospital’s different social programmes. During 2023, the funding had a direct impact on nearly 600 people, and in the seven years that the partnership has lasted, nearly 3,600 people have benefited.

Since the companies were founded, both Moventia and TRAM have followed a clear
commitment to people, not just their workers, users and clients. In line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 17 (Partnerships for the goals), the two companies run their own programmes as well as partnering, as in this case, with NGOs and foundations to promote a better society and contribute to improving the quality of life of the most vulnerable groups.

Public transport, a tool for inclusion
The event to renew the partnership was attended by Moventia’s Corporate Vice-President for Internal and Institutional Communication, Sílvia Martí; TRAM’s General Manager, Humberto López Vilalta; the Director of Sant Joan de Déu Social Services Barcelona, Salvador Maneu; and the Director of Obra Social Sant Joan de Déu, Oriol Bota.

During the talk, it became clear that public transport is an essential tool in helping people to perform everyday activities such as studying, working or maintaining their social network, especially for homeless people who need to access various public resources spread across the city of Barcelona and its metropolitan area. Moreover, access to transport allows them to enjoy complementary activities that have a direct impact on their recovery by strengthening their social and community ties.


The meeting also discussed the positive impact of the project on employability – in the last year, nearly half of the people in the programme have come out of it with a job, in a return to the levels achieved before the pandemic. In the same period, there has also been an increase in the number of people leaving the programme with an economic income, a total of 86% of the people assisted.

About Sant Joan de Déu
Sant Joan de Déu Social Services Barcelona, an organisation that was founded 43 years ago, has the mission of welcoming and comprehensively accompanying people in a situation of homelessness with the aim of promoting opportunities for personal and social development so that they can carry out their personal projects, and is a benchmark in this field in the city of Barcelona. The organisation attends to around 600 people in Barcelona every year – 15% of the total number of unhoused people in the city according to the latest diagnosis report from XAPSLL (Support Network for Unhoused People).

For its part, Obra Social Sant Joan de Déu works for social improvement and puts
solidarity at the centre of people’s lives through the projects run by the Sant Joan de Deu centres. Its commitment also includes raising social awareness of situations that are often not very visible and to providing administrative support to the centres in terms of attracting donations.

About Moventia
Moventia is a family-owned, multinational company specialising in the mobility sector. It was founded in 1923 in Barcelona, Spain, and today – almost one hundred years later – it is a large, consolidated company with a workforce of 5,000 employees. Moventia’s objective is to connect people and cities through a flexible, customer-oriented business model based on multimodality, always with innovation and sustainability as its main objectives.

Moventia has two business divisions. The first is Moventis, a benchmark in public mobility with urban, interurban and discretionary transport services. Moventis moves more than 150 million passengers annually over 110 million kilometres, with a fleet of 1,850 buses and coaches, 41 trams and more than 45,000 bicycles.
The second division is Movento, which is dedicated to private mobility through the sale and repair of vehicles. Movento is one of the leading companies in private mobility, with more than 27,000 new and second-hand vehicles sold per year. It
is also an expert in fleet management, after-sales services for trucks, vans, cars,
motorbikes, buses and coaches, and it offers Car as a Service subscription options under the brand Movento Drive.

About TRAM
TRAM is the company that manages the Barcelona Metropolitan Region’s two tram
networks and that has made the tram the most highly rated mode of public transport according to the EMEF (Weekday Mobility) Survey carried out by the Metropolitan Transport Authority. Its involvement in the access to mobility programme for unhoused people is one of the tram’s most important Corporate Social Responsibility projects and is framed within its Annual Social Responsibility Plan under the commitment to support an initiative that promotes equal opportunities, inclusion and self-improvement.

In April 2024, TRAM will celebrate 20 years of service and a total of 458,626,776 tram journeys. This year will see a whole range of different activities and initiatives held to commemorate the anniversary, including the series of interviews “Trobades al TRAM” – 12 conversations between the journalist Pere Mas and various media personalities from different fields as they travel on the tram. What is more, the 20th anniversary will coincide with the addition of 3 new stops on the Trambesòs network, between Glòries and Verdaguer, to be opened during the course of 2024.

Among the different activities and events planned to celebrate the 20-year mark is the series of interviews “Trobades al TRAM” – 12 conversations between the journalist Pere Mas and various media personalities from different fields as they travel on the tram.

The journalist Marc Giró, who recently won the Catalan Government’s National Communication Award, will open this series of interviews held on operational trams running along the lines of the TRAM network. Pere Mas will also talk to figures including the international chef Carme Ruscalleda, the singer Miki Núñez and the mountain runner Núria Picas.

This series of friendly, informal conversations will not only touch on the professional interests of the guests, but also on matters of human interest. The “Trobades al TRAM” will be broadcast on TRAM’s various online channels (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and
Instagram), on the official blog “Propera parada” and, in podcast format, on Spotify and iVoox

YouTube vídeo

Through these interviews, TRAM aims to highlight the work done over the last 20 years to
offer the people of Barcelona and its metropolitan area a more efficient, sustainable and
environmentally friendly transport system for the future.