TRANSPORT & DOMICILE June, 2017 | Page 32

CAR AND MOTORCYCLE  The car and, even more, motorcycle are the most popular means of transport in Barcelona. However, due to the air and noise pollution as well as lack of parking space and increasing amount of traffic jams, the city is developing plan to reduce an amount of private vehicles in the metropolitan area. The project takes into account the need of private vehicles, however, considers public rail transport the main means of sustainable transportation.  In the closest proximity to the site B-10 motorway well known as Ronda Li- toral is located. It was opened in 1992 being part of the area redevelopment for Olym- pic games. The intervention area takes into consideration an open part of the highway parallel to the train lines as it creates one of the strongest borders on the site and tears apart the urban fabric into ill-connected parts. key to map capacity – Figure   30 + Speed and capacity of road network key to map vehicles 10 km/h 30 km/h 60 km/h 80 km/h train 40 km/h Ronda Litoral Figure   31 page 32 Speed limit of transport infrastructure TRANSPORT & DOMICILE: an architectural intervention to integrate transport infrastructure with housing for Barcelona. Efimovich Alina