The city faces the first seven days of traffic cuts for WYD

Not to catch those who begin work early, but from about 10.30 today will be very difficult to move by car through the center of the city. From that hour until six o'clock on Tuesday 23, two of the main arteries of the city, the Prado-Recoletos-Alcalá and Gran Via, is completely cut off to traffic for seven consecutive days. Madrid City Council has shielded the center, in a measure without precedentes.El parking buses of pilgrims has led yesterday to prohibit parking in ten areas of the capital. The mobility device that the City of Madrid has launched the World Youth Day (WYD) will test the very mobility of the city: according to the jams that occur will check if it has been successful so many roads cut although the city is empty in August. Or not.Traffic Court. For events in the environment Cibeles traffic cuts the Prado-Recoletos, between Columbus and the Glorieta de Carlos V, and the axis-Alcalá Gran Via, from Plaza Cibeles Spain's meaning. Also remain closed to car-free streets of Antonio Maura, between the square of Allegiance and Alfonso XII, and Montalban, in this case from 14.00 to 24.00 on August 19.No parking. Many of the pilgrims who come to the capital will do so by bus. WYD organizers estimate that 10,000 buses arrive to Madrid. The City Council has authorized eight areas on routes into the city to park these buses, and two areas in the center to other vehicles in the organization. For this reason, it is prohibited to park yesterday in the following places: the neighborhood Mirasierra Glacier Avenue de la Condesa and the streets of Rosalia de Castro and the Path of the Infante in the car park Juan Carlos I; ride the Chapel of the Holy Way Carpetana near the cemetery near the Vicente Calderon Stadium, Ciudad Universitaria (Auditorium); polygon Vicálvaro the streets of Smoked, Alberto Sanchez Dehesa Vieja land adjacent to the roundabout of Skates and the football field Casa de Campo; Widening Vallecas between Maroto Jose Gutierrez Street and Gran Via del Sureste.The parking ban also extends to the streets adjacent to the Bernabeu and the perimeter of the Almudena cemetery. In the center, parking is restricted in the Ruiz de Alarcon Street, behind the Paseo del Prado between Montalban and Philip IV.20 and August 21 will prohibit parking at the Park West on Paseo de Camoes, from Ruperto Chapi to Francisco and Jacinto de Alcantara. For residents with distinctive neighborhoods SER and Imperial have been enabled Cuatro Caminos compensatory parking areas.