Meridiana Avenue, Aragón-Mallorca section

Meridiana Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Barcelona as a main entry and exit route for the city, essential for all forms of transport, connecting districts, and a key urban road for the surrounding neighborhoods.
This renovation project covers a section with a total length of 385 m and an area of 18.477 m². The project is based on the idea that Meridiana Avenue can drop vehicle lanes to gain civic spaces to improve urban social interaction in the neighborhoods it runs through, add green spaces, and expand commercial options on the ground floors of the buildings. It involves turning the Avenue into a civic hub in the city by naturalizing the sidewalks with flowerbeds and increasing the number of trees. The goal is to increase pedestrian mobility and bicycle use. The resulting geometry envisages reducing the width of the lanes or getting rid of some. Removing impassable medians by widening them and enabling their longitudinal use, separating the bike lane by placing it in the medians, prioritization of the bus lane and naturalization of the sidewalks and median will make the avenue a pleasant space for walking.