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The concentration of the population in the big cities made it necessary to provide them with public transport, efficient for the development of daily life and that will meet the needs of citizens.

To this end, the City of Cartagena has decided to provide the municipality with four new city buses ALSA company to improve the lives of Cartagena and tourists who come to visit the city.

"Cartagena will be improving as urban buses without haste but without pause," said the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, during the presentation of these four urban buses, which comply with all accessibility regulations.

An act that has had the presence of Councilor for Infrastructure, Juan Pedro Torralba;

the director of ALSA in the Mediterranean, Valeriano Díaz;

and the manager of the company in Cartagena, José Miguel Albaladejo.

Cartagena has a fleet of 57 city buses from the ALSA concessionaire.

According to Ana Belén Castejón, "this company is a leader in terms of innovation and technology and has never put any problem in our proposals".

One of the proposals that has been requested from the City of Cartagena is the addition of the WIFI network on buses in the city.

Ana Belén Castejón has indicated that "this request is being studied and seeing which buses need it because with WIFI users can work comfortably".

In addition, the director of the company ALSA in the Mediterranean area, Valeriano Diaz explained that "a new APP will also be launched, which will be inaugurated by the mayor herself, and, will be placed nine information panels in the city .

All this in a gradual way ".

As for the lines and routes of buses, the mayor of Cartagena has clarified that "the allocation is pending but the requirements that are going to be followed are those lines most in demand and those where users need greater comfort and higher accessibility rates. "Also, he added that" it is studying to incorporate new buses address to the Hospital of Santa Lucia, create a line between the Dolores and Santa Ana and increase the frequency in the West zone. "

BUSES AND WOMEN

Currently, the ALSA bus company has 57 drivers, of which 30 are women.

The mayor of Cartagena has asked that "every time they are incorporating more women drivers in their workforce."

Of the four new city buses, two of them are driven by women.

TRAVEL PERFORMED

In 2018, approximately 5,200,000 travelers have used city buses in the port city.

The director of ALSA in the Mediterranean area explained that "the City of Cartagena has increased the number of travelers due to the buses of the West Zone, the buses of the Hospital of Santa Lucia, the quality of these, the punctuality of the drivers and that women are drivers. "

Around 6% has grown the number of travelers in Cartagena in the last 3 years, when it usually increases in cities around 2 or 2.5%.

ELECTRIC BUSES

The ALSA concessionaire is studying the possibility of incorporating electric buses in the city.

Valeriano Diaz has concluded that "the company has 8 hybrid buses but although these four new buses are not, pollute less than a gasoline car to be Euro 6".

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena