Urbinaga (Metro Bilbao)


Urbinaga is a station of line 2 of Metro Bilbao. It is located in the neighbourhood of Simondrogas, in the municipality of Sestao, next to the Sestao water treatment plant and in proximity to the Lasesarre football stadium. It was opened on 13 April, 2002.

Station layout

Urbinaga station is an elevated station located entirely on a curved viaduct, due to the necessity of adapting to the difficult orography of the area. The station's hall and main entrance is located on the ground floor, with two tracks and platforms on the elevated portion of the station.

Access

Metro services

The station is served by Line 2 to Basauri and Kabiezes with services around seven to ten minutes.

Bus services

The station is also served by the following Bizkaibus regional services:
The location of the station, next to a large water treatment plant and on a relatively sparsely populated area, was chosen due to its strategic position within the Metro Bilbao network, being the only point apart from the Bilbao-Abando railway station where the Metro Bilbao tracks cross in very close proximity to those of Cercanías Bilbao, a commuter rail service serving the left bank of the Bilbao estuary: the tracks from Cercanías C-1 and C-2 lines are located directly below the station.
The project of construction an intermodal station between Metro Bilbao and Cercanías Bilbao at Urbinaga was first announced in 2009, with an agreement for its construction signed between Adif and the Consortium of Biscayan Transport in 2011. The project was to be executed in phases, with the first one expected to begin in autumn of 2011 involving the setting of new railway tracks for Cercanías and the construction of a new station for the service, linking it to that of Metro Bilbao. However, the project was delayed and it was not until 2017 when the Ministry of Environment published the environmental impact report, giving green light to the construction of the project. As of June 2020, construction has not yet started.