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The mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, Transport and Councilman Joaquin Segado, met this afternoon with ALSA area delegate, Valeriano Diaz Revilla, and the head of the company in Cartagena, Francisco Garcia, to finalize the measures they are going to get on in the coming months will be another step forward in the modernization of the service, thereby enhancing their use.

As explained by the mayor, among these measures is the installation of informational displays at stops and mobile applications that inform users of the arrival of the buses.

A partial replacement of the fleet with hybrid units, adapted for people with discapacida is also contemplated.

The public transport fleet in Cartagena has 56 buses of which 35 are assigned to urban lines, 17 to intercity and commuter lines and four minibuses.

All buses are adapted for disabled access.

Barreiro recalled that over recent years there have been decisions to Cartagena with an efficient public transport that meets the needs of travel and mobility of citizens.

This has been renewing the bus fleet;

have enabled new lines based on the growth of the city, such as the hospital of Saint Lucia;

have launched devices like the EBUS system that gives priority to buses passing through the traffic lights;

and was put into service on ICUEBUS for easy transport in the vicinity of the Old Town.

NEW MEASURES

The government will move forward in the process of modernization, according to the mayor.

You do this until the end of the year it is going to get a package of measures that will make a substantial improvement in the operation of public transport making it more efficient and accessible to citizens running.

As detailed delegate delegate zone area ALSA, Valeriano Diaz Revilla, one of the first actions will be the installation of information panels at bus stops where citizens estimated time waiting for the bus will be informed connection other lines, notices, service incidents

Currently being installed 20 panels on canopies where the lines waiting to get more passengers: Alameda de San Antón, square Bastarreche, hospital of Saint Lucia and Paseo de Alfonso XIII.

Furthermore, it will improve the bus fleet with the commissioning of more efficient and sustainable models.

Will total eight buses which will be renovated, four hybrids and four others will have the ECO-6 ceritificación.

Finally, we will use new technology to enable citizens to have real-time bus lines and waiting time.

They can access this data through a new website that is under development or downloading a specific mobile application where all the information is collected.

These measures will gain public transport efficiency, citizens have a ervice s more agile and accessible and Cartagena will gain ground in the field of so-called smart cities smartcity or where new technologies are used to make life easier for citizens.

RETURN TO TOP TRAVEL

The mayor was commented that the hardest years of the crisis led to a decline in the number of users on public transport in general and Cartagena has not been immune to this decline, however, this year 2014, the lift of the economic situation has started to notice an increase in passenger numbers.

By August there has been a 1.10% increase in transit use compared to 2013 as the year progresses and the increase is being overcome by month.

Barreiro gave as an example the month of August, when the increase was 2.08% to 264,218 passengers, 258,838 fronts to August 2014 were recorded.

HAIL TO CARTAGENA, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE PGE

Finally questions from journalists and the mayor has referred to the inclusion of the AVE line between Murcia and Cartagena in the General Budget.

Barreiro stated that it is the first time that this project was provided for in a budget and a statement of funds that will allow completion of 2016.

Barreiro has praised the commitment of the Minister Ana Pastor for this project, along the Mediterranean Corridor is undamental development of Cartagena and the region f.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena