architectural barriers exchangers of Barcelona Metro stations where two or more lines, delayed the full adjustment for the disabled underground and the elderly until 2014, although initially envisaged fully accessible by 2012.
Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) was marked the next two years to have a fully accessible network from the current 82%, pursuant to the Plan for Universal Accessibility.
President of the English Confederation of People with Physical and Organic (Cocemfe) in Catalonia, José Maria Ballesteros, seen as "nonsense" that the stations are adapted but not the corridors that connect them, as this prevents a person with reduced mobility to move around them as the others. 
Sources have said that all exchangers are adapted, except Espanya (L1 and 3), Plaça de Sants (L1 and 5), Urquinaona (L1 and 4), Clot (L1 and 2) Verdaguer (L4 and 5 ), Maragall (L4 and 5) and partially Passeig de Gracia (L2, 3 and 4).
works to adapt the connection between the Metro and train station Passeig de Gracia begin on 15 January with the installation of elevators to the street and the removal of steps in the corridors, so that in one year "shall be deleted entirely architectural barriers," the councilor has advanced Eixample, Ramon Nicolau.
These works have been slow to start to avoid work at many stations at once. Furthermore, adaptation is parked Urquinaona "not traffic collapse" until completion of the works on Passeig de Gracia, and which is now cut off by road works Provença AVE. Europa Press Barcelona
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