Madrid-Barajas Airport inaugurates new bus terminal in T4 terminal

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The Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez, inaugurated this Friday the new bus terminal at T4 of the Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport, which is being put into operation after an investment of more than 19 million euros.

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“This is a commitment to promote collective and sustainable public transport. Our mission is to ensure easy, fast and comfortable access for travelers to Madrid airport. So that citizens can go to the airport directly from their communities of origin by bus. And in the future also by high speed”, said the minister after recalling that the promotion of intermodality and investment in these sustainability policies “are part of Aena’s climate change strategy, whose main objective is the progressive reduction of CO2 emissions derived from the activity of airports”.

New Bus Terminal

The new bus terminal occupies an area of 12,600 m2, with a two-story building and a roof for maintenance, docks and roads. The second floor is reserved for passenger embarkation and disembarkation, with access through eight doors to the 30 bus docks distributed around the perimeter.

The second floor is for waiting and moving passengers, and has a commercial area and a terrace that surrounds the entire building. The new infrastructure has natural lighting in all spaces thanks to three large skylights and glass walls, as well as a sustainable green roof, complete with bus and flight information screens, toilets, elevators and mechanical ramps.

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The new terminal will be used for regular buses, with national and international origin or destination, as well as for occasional buses for groups or excursions. At present, the scheduled lines operating at the airport alone handle around one million passengers a year.

The new terminal is located next to the P4 parking lot, on the north side (module F), connected to the corridor that connects the parking lot with the Terminal T4 building via mechanical ramps, moving walkways and a new vertical communication core, all to favor pedestrian connectivity between buildings.

The infrastructure will improve the service, decongesting the area destined for bus stops in “arrivals” of terminal T4, which has 10 parking bays. In this way, the new bus terminal will house regular and occasional services, while in the roads on the ground floor of the building will be the stops for transport services between terminals (airport transit bus), urban services and EMT, and shuttles with airport parking lots.

Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport already has two other areas for buses, one located in terminal T1, with 27 parking spaces, and a bus waiting area in terminal T4, with 24 parking spaces.