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Study Tendered for Tram Connection Between Girona and Banyoles

The project, with a budget of 1.29 million euros, will analyze the viability of a new public transport link between Gironès and Pla de l'Estany.

Generic image of a modern tram in a Mediterranean urban setting.
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Generic image of a modern tram in a Mediterranean urban setting.

The project for the tram connection between Girona and Banyoles is moving forward with the tendering of an informative study, which will analyze the viability of this new public transport alternative.

Infraestructures.cat has initiated the tendering process for the drafting of a key document that will determine whether the axis connecting Montilivi, Fontajau, Sarrià de Ter, and Banyoles can become a new public transport route between the Gironès and the Pla de l'Estany. This study, costing 1.29 million euros, is commissioned by the Department of Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition.
The scope of action defined by the resolution focuses on a connection starting from Girona and extending towards the Pla de l'Estany. The proposal aims to improve daily mobility, linking neighborhoods and facilities in Girona with Sarrià de Ter, a municipality in the first metropolitan ring, and with the Pla de l'Estany, a region with an intense daily relationship with the city of Girona for work, education, and economic reasons.
The tender for the study, dated April 22, 2026, is part of the Infraestructures.cat budget. This step follows a justifying report from the Civil Works Innovation and Projects Management, dated April 27, and the initiation resolution signed by the Production Directorate on May 6. The objective is to provide a solid technical basis for an idea that has long been part of the debate on mobility in the region.
The current project has a direct precedent in studies on new tram-trains in Catalonia. In November 2022, the Department of Territory had already awarded FGC the analysis of a tram-train in the Costa Brava, which included a connection between Girona, Banyoles, and Olot. That approach already foresaw resolving the link of the urban system Girona-Sarrià de Ter, combining train in interurban sections and tram in urban ones. The new resolution from Infraestructures.cat now specifies a part of that debate, focusing on the section from Girona to Banyoles.
In June 2025, the Minister of Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition, Sílvia Paneque, already defended in the Parliament the need to promote a strategy to define the future network of collective transport infrastructures, with tram-trains as a key element. In that appearance, the Government placed the commission of informative studies for the urban tram system of Girona, Montilivi, Fontajau, and Sarrià de Ter up to Banyoles in the Girona regions, linking it to the new Catalonia Transport Infrastructure Plan.
For public transport users, the central question is whether this future corridor can offer a real alternative to current commutes between Girona, Sarrià de Ter, and Banyoles, which today largely depend on roads. The study will have to determine if a tram system can usefully respond to the daily mobility needs between the Gironès and the Pla de l'Estany.

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