Madrid's PSOE Demands Metro Extension to Perales del Río in Getafe

Madrid's socialists urge the Community of Madrid to implement a transport strategy for the metropolitan area, criticizing the neglect of peripheral neighborhoods.

Generic image of a subway train entering a tunnel.
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Generic image of a subway train entering a tunnel.

The Socialist Parliamentary Group has urged the Madrid Assembly to extend the Metro network to the Perales del Río neighborhood in Getafe, denouncing the area's isolation and the absence of a public transport strategy for the metropolitan crown.

Socialists have demanded from regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, a "real strategy for the metropolitan crown," arguing that the Popular Party's model "continues to condemn the southern municipalities to inequality and a lack of basic transport infrastructures."

"It cannot be that, in the middle of 2026, the residents of Perales del Río remain completely isolated due to the Ayuso government, while you dedicate yourselves to building cities without services."

Cristina González · Deputy Spokesperson for the PSOE in the Assembly and resident of Getafe
During her speech, the Getafe deputy regretted that the regional government "continues to turn its back" on areas with higher population density, where public transport is not an option, but "a basic necessity for thousands of working families."
González warned that the disconnection suffered by peripheral neighborhoods like Perales del Río is a result of a "planned abandonment" systematically executed by the right. The PSOE also criticized the Minister of Transport, Jorge Rodrigo, for his "constant confrontational attitude" and for "wasting time in the Assembly talking about the Cercanías network, which is not his competence, instead of addressing his own failures in the Madrid Metro network."
Socialists demanded "rigor and institutional respect" from the Community of Madrid, urging the president to stop dismissing the unanimous requests of city councils and neighborhood groups as "whims." Finally, the PSOE contrasted the "privatizing and fragmented model of the PP" with the "urgent need to structure the territory with quality public transport."
As examples of what they consider a "widespread dismantling" in the region, the socialists cited "the drama generated by their negligence in San Fernando de Henares with homes affected by line 7B, the absurdity of mandatory transfers on line 9B that penalize users from Rivas and Arganda, the demand for the Metro's arrival in Parla, or the eternal and paralyzed extension of line 10 to fundamental cities like Móstoles and Alcorcón."