The mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, received this morning the visit of the delegation of LVEF in the Region of Murcia, José Luis Menéndez González, a meeting that have addressed various issues related to the line of narrow gauge railway Cartagena .
In this sense, Pilar Barreiro has made a number of proposals, like increasing the tram line and turn, extended to the city, neighborhoods such as Santa Lucia which is now a growing area.
This would require changes in the line, buried by the Los Mateos.
In addition, another priority action would be the removal of fifty feet wide that is in the journey to Los Nietos, starting with De La Hoya (Alum) will disappear by the construction of the highway to tailings.
Other issues highlighted by the mayor have been the construction of a halt in the new General Hospital, already tendered and will start within 3 or 4 months, and enhancing communications between Cartagena and La Union.
In another vein, has discussed the possibility of reaching an agreement to create a single ticket FEVE bus link, and make the future TGV station solution is contemplated to include intermodal terminal station FEVE so that users can link to.
INCREASE THE NUMBER OF USERS FEVE
The delegate of LVEF in the region, José Luis Menéndez González, has highlighted the increase in passenger numbers has been detected in recent months.
Specifically, last month there were 3600 passengers, a line up that looks like it could be repeated in May.
The causes of this increase is due to people seems to return to use more public transport and the proliferation of school trips.
Currently, the number of users in low season is around 30,000, while in high season (summer months) is approximately 65,000 passengers.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena