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The Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, by the Councillor for Infrastructure and Transport, Francisco Espejo, and Alsa-City manager, Francisco Garcia, presented this afternoon to the media for the four new buses to renew the fleet of 40 vehicles operates in Cartagena urban lines and that during the last two years have used about ten million passengers.
With this renewal, and l is achieved that one hundred percent of the fleet is accessible to people with disabilities, while also winning the rest of the users in comfort and safety.
There are four Mercedes buses.
Two of them, 12 meters long with three doors and capacity for 72 passengers standing, 26 seated and two places for disabled people, another of 10.5 meters and two doors, with capacity for 49 foot travelers, 25 seated and two places for disabled people, and a minibus for Icue line, Sprinter travelers up to 11 standing, 13 seated and a place for people with disabilities.
All have low-floor electric ramp, wheelchair spaces (equipped with belts and switches to the standard height), special reserved seats have armrests that swing out into the hallway (for convenience in access for the disabled, pregnant women, travelers elderly) and kneeling system bus or inclination to facilitate access.
On security are equipped with the latest systems, EBS braking and anti-lock ABS, antiskid and electronic stability programs.
The doors have security systems anti-pinch, grab bars vertical and horizontal padded protections.
They also have a device that can not move forward when the doors are open.
The mayor highlighted the efforts being made ​​to improve service, whose passenger figures indicate a growing consolidation of the bus as regular transportation of many citizens, as an alternative to the car.
However, the decline in activity and movements by the economic crisis, has been reflected in the numbers of users of Cartagena, the decline in the last two years has been about 7 percent, a figure similar to the Spanish average and below the regional traveler whose descent has placed nearly 13 percent.
MILITARY WILL NOT HAVE TO GO TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS TO MURCIA
Asked by reporters about the Defense Ministry's plans to eliminate sub-delegations of Defense, the mayor noted that he has spoken is subject to the minister, who assured him that he will stay in Cartagena care services to the military and their families, without having to travel to Murcia.
The mayor explained that the sub-delegations of Defense heretofore existing cities and provincial capitals not the need to reorganize services and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the organizational structure of the armed forces, has led the ministry to promote their disappearance.
According to Barreiro, these organisms disappear as such, but will continue serving the military and their families wherever there military units and in a more effective and direct.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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