en.Wedoany.com Reported - The Salamanca City Council has completed the tender for the measurement and monitoring of indicators for the "Raíles Verdes" (Green Track) project, which aims to assess the actual impact of converting the former "Ruta de la Plata" (Silver Route) railway line into an urban greenway. This contract falls under Action C3 of the Spanish Urban Green Infrastructure Development and Consolidation Subsidy Program, managed by the Fundación Biodiversidad (Biodiversity Foundation).

The total budget for the "Green Track" project is €2.8 million, with 60% co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER). The project has received support from the Biodiversity Foundation, under the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (Miteco), and is part of the European financing framework.

The work awarded will establish a long-term control and evaluation mechanism for the planned actions. Its objective is to measure project outcomes, verify the degree of achievement of set goals, and, where necessary, facilitate adjustments to interventions to ensure the project's durability and resilience.

Through the "Green Track" project, the Salamanca City Council will renaturalize the urban environment along the entire route of the former "Ruta de la Plata" railway line, transforming it into a greenway. By 2028, the former railway line will be converted into a greenway, while also restoring the "volcán de Garrido" (Garrido Volcano), creating two urban forests, building nearly one hundred urban vegetable gardens, increasing green areas in the boulevard next to the Jesús Park and the Garden Street viaduct area, and carrying out forest management along the banks of the Tormes River (río Tormes).

This project will address the issues of these lands—which, despite being close to urban areas, have become low-utilization and abandoned zones since rail traffic ceased forty years ago. Through the natural recovery of degraded plots, the increase and protection of biodiversity, and the control of invasive species, nature-based solutions will be implemented to mitigate and adapt to climate change and control pollution. This not only reduces the barrier effect of the railway, integrating it into the city, but also fully utilizes all ecosystem services for the benefit of urban health, thereby improving the quality of life for Salamanca's residents.

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