Resumen de Project for a greenway on the vasco-navarro railway

Francisco Ramírez Chasco, Andrés Seco Meneses

• The last ten to fifteen years have seen a great boost given to the use of the bicycle, both as a leisure pursuit and as an increasingly established alternative means of transport for wide sectors of the population.

  Against this background, various public authorities have been preparing, with greater or lesser intensity, action programs to allow the rational development of a network of cycling routes able to meet the demand for this type of infrastructure..

  In the planning of this network of routes for non-motorized traffic, the conditioning and rehabilitation of old disused railway lines (greenways) is particularly important; in themselves they form a real mainstay of the region, promoting inter-regional cohesion and the socio-economic revitalization of rural areas.

  In the case of the Autonomous Community of Navarra, the local Government has drawn up a Cycle Master Plan for Navarra (PBD NAVARRA) which provides for the completion of 10 priority routes, one of which is based on the Greenway of the Vasco-Navarro Railway.

  The paper presented here develops the formal and functional aspects considered in the drafting of a section of that route.