The metro expansion programme for 2007-2011 includes the following projects:

L-11: La Peseta - La Fortuna:

1.5 km, 1 station (opening spring 2010)

L-2: La Elipa - Las Rosas:

4.5 km, 4 stations (first station in an area known as Barrio de Bilbao (La Almudena cemetery), the second at Plaza Alsacia, the third at the road intersection Guadalajara/Vicálvaro, and the fourth on Paseo Ginebra) - (under construction)

L-9: Herrera Oria - Mirasierra:

2 km, 2 stations (future terminus providing interchange with Cercanías in the future) - (under construction)

L-3: Villaverde Alto - El Casar:

2.5 km, 1 station (interchange with MetroSur) (planned)

Also new lines of 'Metro ligero' are planned:

Puerta de Hierro - Majadahonda - Las Rozas (10 km)

Tram in Valdemoro (3.5 km), located about 25 km south of Madrid, and 10 km southeast of Parla.

Cercanías line C-5 is to be extended from Móstoles to Navalcarnero (14.5 km)

Left: Tunnel built by the Classic Madrid Method under Chamartín Railway Station for Line 1; Right: Tunnel excavated by TBM east of Pinar de Chamartín station for Line 4

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