The three stops will have a nearby EMT night bus service and reinforced taxi service
Primavera Sound Madrid has announced this Tuesday that the public will have free uninterrupted shuttles that will depart from the Cívitas Metropolitano to attend the festival and that on their return they will also have the bus interchanges as their destination. Mendez Alvaro and Plaza de Castillawhere a nearby EMT night bus service and reinforced taxi service are expected.
This will be one of the options that event attendees will have to move between the venue, the City of Rock in Arganda del Reyand the capital, although the organization has detailed other mobility alternatives in a statement.
To go to the festival, which will be held for the first time in Madrid on the days June 8, 9 and 10the public will have the main starting point at the Cívitas Metropolitano, where the free opening day will also take place on Wednesday, June 7 and the end of the party Brunch Electronik on Sunday 11.
The shuttle buses will go to the City of Rock from the Atlético de Madrid stadium from 2:30 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. This is the means of transport recommended by the festival organization for its “comfort, safety and efficiency”.
In it Metropolitan CivitasIn addition, a space for collecting bracelets will be deployed, as well as food and drink areas, so that the festival “officially” begins there, they have detailed from the festival.
Other mobility alternatives to the City of Rock are metro line L9 at its regular timetable to the Arganda del Rey stopwhich will be connected to the festival site also with shuttle buses.
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Likewise, the taxi with a fixed price in advance by prior reservation, from any point in Madrid, will be another of the alternatives. In addition, two specific stops will be set up for the festival on Paseo del Prado with Plaza de Cibeles or Plaza Conde Casal with Guillermo Fernández Shaw street.
Attendees who wish to use their private car will be able to access the parking lot of the venue with an advance reservation of 10 euros per day. These seats will go on sale soon through AccessTicket. Also, it will be possible to get to the festival by VTC from any point in Madrid.
Once each of the three days is over, The return from the City of Rock can be done aboard three free shuttle bus lineswhich in this case will have three direct destination points, the same Cívitas Metropolitano – line in operation of 16.00 to 07.30 hours— and the Méndez Álvaro and Plaza de Castilla interchanges — of 00.00 to 07.30 hours–. The three will have a nearby EMT night bus service and reinforced taxi service, the organization has assured.
NO SUBWAY OUTSIDE THE USUAL HOURS
At the exit of the Ciudad del Rock venue, the free shuttle buses will also wait that will connect with the Arganda del Rey stop on the Metro line L9which will not open outside its normal hours, so attendees can use it to return after 06:00.
In the presentation of the festival, last October, the organization indicated that it was in talks with the Madrid authorities for a possible opening of the metro outside normal hours, which in the end has not been achieved.
On the other hand, the festival will have a taxi rank with a free meter and a Taxi Service point located in the parking lot of the venue, where you can book a taxi with a fixed price.
These are the options offered by Primavera Sound in its debut in Madrid, whose lineup is made up of Depeche Mode, Blur, Rosalía, Kendrick Lamar, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, St. Vincent, Calvin Harris, Le Tigre, Halsey or Bad Gyal, among many others.