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Manresa Vic Terrassa Sabadell L’Hospitalet PRESENTATION The Report we are presenting here is for a year of transition. The year that closes a two year contract programme, 2007-2008, and which opens the doors to the difficult and complex negotiation of a new contract programme which, ideally, should be for at least four years. With all this, it does not seem that the economic situation and the funding of public administrative bodies will be of much help. We will have to negotiate firmly and in depth. Nevertheless, a lot of political commitment will be required to move the accounts of the Barcelona area public transport system away from the limitations and precariousness with which they are bound. I do not want to minimize the current figures of the allocations from public administrative JOAQUIM NADAL I FARRERAS bodies. The volume of these allocations is very large indeed, but they prove, at the same Counsellor of Territorial Policy time, some of the contradictions and main difficulties of a highly subsidized model, and Public Works President of the Metropolitan appreciated and recognized as a whole, but always limping in the face of the extensions Transport Authority needed to increase the offer and the complementarity between the different transport systems. The main innovations that 2008 offers refer to the culmination of the objectives set out by the new tramway system, the intensification of the investment by the Generalitat in improving accessibility and compliance with the Law for the suppression of architectural barriers, the constant improvement of the bus and train fleet of the railway and metro system, the continuous extension of the area included in the integrated fare system and the improvement of its services, and the continuation of the large projects to extent the Metro system. This year, after years of scarcity, two new stations have come into service on line 3 and this has meant bringing the Metro closer to areas with a high demographic density and a very high demand for public transport. Undoubtedly, 2008 will have also been the year of preparation to make 2009 the year of the enormous leap forward in the offer with the first stations of the new line 9 coming into service in early autumn. This perspective requires urgent financial solution that even today are sparse and highly insufficient, as it will become painfully obvious once the offer increases in the planned proportion. Under these circumstances of growing costs in a context of contraction or slowing down of demand will put the system to a direct test and require a change of attitude among all administrative bodies which today we can sense, but not quite define. Index C1 Presentation of the consortium 8 Administrative bodies making up the MTA 10 Administrative, advisory and consulting bodies 11 Organisational structure of the MTA 13 C2 Actions during 2008 14 Infrastructure planning 16 Degree of execution of the actions 17 Current investments 25 Studies derived from IMP 2001-2010 29 BMA Mobility Management Plan 29 Management of the tramway system 31 Diagonal - Baix Llobregat Tramway 31 Sant Martí - Besòs Tramway 33 Evolution of demand on the tramway system 36 Integrated fare system 37 Tickets and Prices 39 Sales and use of the system 40 Intermodality index 43 Financing system 45 Other actions 47 Rolling stock 47 Operating aid system - OAS 48 Sermetra, SL 50 Projection abroad 51 C3 System statistics 54 TransMet Figures 2008 56 EMEF Questionnaire 2008 60 C4 Auditors’ Report 68 C5 Budget 2009 112 Presentation of the consortium C1 Presentation of the consortium Administrative, advisory The mta consortium and consulting bodies The Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA) is a inter- The administrative, advisory and consulting bodies of the administrative consortium of voluntary nature created in MTA are made up of representatives of the different organi- 1997, and whose members may be all administrative bod- zations and administrative bodies associated with Public ies providing public transport services, either individually or Transport. through organizations that group and represent them, and who form part of the area comprised of Alt Penedès, Baix Board of Directors Llobregat, Barcelonès, Garraf, Maresme, Vallès Occidental The Board of Directors is the body governing the MTA. The and Vallès Oriental. board is made up of eighteen members with full rights (nine The consortium is comprised of the Autonomous Govern- representing the Generalitat (Government) of Catalonia, ment of Catalonia (51%) and local administrative bodies seven representing local administrative bodies (Barcelona (49%): Barcelona City Council, Metropolitan Transport Body City Council and TMB) and two representing the AMTU), (MTB) and the Association of Municipalities providing ur- and two observers representing the Central Government. The ban transport services in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area Technical Manager of the MTA also attends the meetings. (AMTU). There is also the presence of representatives of the The composition of the Board of Management on December Central State Government as observers in the administrative 31, 2008 was: bodies of the MTA. President Joaquim Nadal i Farreras The purpose of the MTA is to promote cooperation between the public Administrative bodies providing the services and First Vice-president Ramon García-Bragado i Acín the infrastructures of the Public Transport system of the Second Vice-president Antoni Poveda i Zapata area of Barcelona of which they form part, as well as col- Members Antonio Balmón i Arévalo laboration with bodies who, like the State Government, are Martí Carnicer i Vidal financially involved or are operators of their own or yet non- Assumpta Escarp i Gibert transferred. Jordi Follia i Alsina Josep Mayoral i Antigas Lluïsa Melgares i Aguirre Manel Nadal i Farreras Oriol Nel·lo i Colom Eduard Pallejà i Sedó Jordi Portabella i Calvete Matilde Sala i Manuel Lluís Tejedor i Ballesteros Esteve Tomàs i Torrens Manel Villalante i Llauradó Member and Managing Director Ramon Seró i Esteve Observers José Luis Marbán García Ángel Rodríguez González Secretary Carme Sardà i Vilardaga Sagrada Familia Metro entrance. The public transport network links the main part of the city 10 11 C1 Presentation of the consortium Administrative, advisory and consulting bodies Organisational structure of the mta Executive Committee Mobility Council On December 31, 2008 the composition of the MTA payroll The Executive Committee of the Board of Directors is The approval of the Law for Mobility 9/2003, dated June 13, was: comprised of six members: three in representation of the involved a modification of the by-laws of the MTA to convert Generalitat (Government) of Catalonia, two in representation it into the Authority for Mobility. This law also included the Directors and managers Technical and support staff of local constituents and one in representation of AMTU. constitution of the regional mobility councils. Ramon Seró i Esteve Montserrat Alegrí i Garcia General manager It has the general function of examining and presenting to The new by-laws of the MTA, approved in June 2005, define Xavier Andreu i Sedó the Board of Directors proposals for planning instruments the Mobility Council of the MTA as the body for consulting Marc A. Garcia i López Lluís Avellana i Pla Technical director of the Metropolitan Public Transport System; financing and civic and social participation in the operation of the Magda Baró i Callejas agreements and service contracts with administrative public collective transport system and mobility. Lluís Alegre i Valls Elisabet Bassi i Riera Head of the Mobility department bodies and operators as well as the fare system and annual It is comprised of the following members: Jordi Clària i Martínez budgets, among others. Josep Caldú i Cebrián President: Second vice-president of the MTA Marta De Domingo i Peña Head of the Administrative department On December 31, 2008, the Executive Committee was com- Anna Farrero i Vallès posed as follows: One member of the Board of Management of the MTA for Francesc Calvet i Borrull Núria Fontova i Jordana each associated administration and member body Head of the Planning department Alfredo Garcia i González President Ramon Seró i Esteve Representatives of the Federation of Municipalities of Mayte Capdet i Sorribes Jaume Garcia i Soler Members Assumpta Escarp i Gibert Catalonia and the Catalan Association of Municipalities Head of the Integrated fare system and Communication department and Regions Sonia Gómez i Gil Manel Nadal i Farreras Carme Fàbregas i Casas Antoni Poveda i Zapata Representatives of the employer organisations with most Head of the Systems department Montserrat Hernández i Rovira implementation in Catalonia Carolina Lages i Llopis Antoni Prunés i Santamaria Xavier Roselló i Molinari Manel Villalante i Llauradó Representatives of unions with most implementation in Assistant Technical director Miquel Lamas i Sánchez Catalonia Mònica Lladó i Garcia Secretary Carme Sardà i Vilardaga Àngel Sangrós i Bondia Agustí López i Marín Representatives of the consumer and user associations Head of the Project Development department Josep Moya i Matas Legal Advisory Commission most representatives of Catalonia Maria Montaner i Maragall Head of the Operator Liaison Unit Alfred Pallardó i Beltran This commission provides assistance and legal advisory Representatives of associations or groups of special Sílvia Sanchón i Llausí services to the Board of Management and the General relevance in public transport and mobility Lluís Rams i Riera Directorate of the MTA. It is made up of representatives from Head of the System Financing Unit The General director of the MTA Rosa Solans i Castells the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, the Barcelona City Council, the EMT, the AMTU and the MTA itself. A member of the Management of the Consortium, proposed to this effect by the General Director, acting as secretary of Operators’ Technical Platform the Council. The Operators’ Technical Platform of Metropolitan Transport is the organ of collaboration and consultation of the Consortium in relation to technical questions and it is composed of representatives of the operators of public transport in the metropolitan area.