The Madrid City Council Environment and Mobility Delegate Borja Carabante and the Managing Director of the Municipal Transport Company (EMT) Alfonso Sánchez presented the new bus model that will be incorporated this month on line 200, which connects Avenida de América with the Barajas terminals, and in the coming months, on the Exprés Aeropuerto line.
This new generation of CNG buses, a total fleet of 17 new vehicles to connect Madrid with the Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, is an exercise in innovation by the EMT together with the Swedish manufacturer Scania and the coachbuilder Castrosúa. One of the most striking innovations is that the new vehicles are equipped with LED information screens and exterior signage. The first two windows on the right side of the bus have large screens that can be used to announce the destination to passengers, something of special importance on the Exprés Aeropuerto line.
The fleet, which complies with the Euro 6 emission regulations, is equipped with a more efficient engine adapted to the particular route of the service to the Airport, which manages to reduce fuel consumption by 10%.
The Exprés Aeropuerto line was inaugurated at the end of 2010 as a complement to the service provided by line 200, which has covered the section between Avenida de América and the Airport since 2004. It has the peculiarity of operating 24 hours a day starting from the Atocha interchange during the day and limiting its journey from its head of Cibeles to Barajas at night, every day of the year.
Scania’s 17 new completely blue buses will replace vehicles on both lines, in the case of Exprés Aeropuerto, foreseeably at the beginning of March 2023.
Line 200 between Avenida de América and Barajas Airport has transported 20.26 million passengers since its creation in November 2004, while Exprés Aeropuerto, launched in November 2010, has moved 11.80 million of users to date.
Source: Madrid City Council/EMT
