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Cambiemos Murcia has claimed today at a press conference the restitution of the bus line 61, which connected El Palmar, San Ginés, Aljucer and Murcia, suppressed in 2012 after the implementation of the Public Transport Optimization Plan of the Public Transport Entity, and has accused the municipal government of "throwing" the citizenship with its "policy of cuts in transportation."
Councilman Nacho Tornel, accompanied by Ginés Mirón, vocal of the formation in San Ginés;
Francisco Guirado, from Cambiemos Aljucer, and Isabel Ortiz, neighbor of that district, explained that the reality of public transport in the municipality, that is to say, the one lived by the people residing in the districts, is "very different" from the one the counselor of the Presidency and Development, Pedro Rivera, presented a month ago in an act about the Transportation Master Plan.
In this regard, has pointed out that the "abnormality" that assumes that the lines of districts are not part of the municipal powers but regional, adds the fact that while the government team spends millions of euros on projects in the center, the districts bear the consequences of a public transport that suffers continual restrictions.
Thus, according to the mayor, the hardest part is taken by residents in areas such as San Ginés, El Palmar and Aljucer, where more than 33,000 people live and where two poles of employment and public services of reference are located in the municipality , La Arrixaca and the industrial estate of San Ginés.
These are areas, like the Campo de Murcia, "very needed" public transport that have seen the mobility of its inhabitants reduced due to the restriction of lines, the increase in the price of the ticket and the worsening of the quality in the service .
For Tornel it does not make sense that the line 61 continues disappeared when its suppression was due to the crisis, since according to the own minister of Property, Cristóbal Montoro, the situation already has improved.
Francisco Guirado has reported that with the elimination of line 18 on March 23 there are already two times that Aljucer has suffered the closure of a bus line, as a result of a discriminatory policy not only with the inhabitants of that line pedanía, but with those of the 55 affected, in which 61 percent of the population of the municipality lives.
"They are loading the radial system that unified the districts with equal prices and schedules," said Guirado, who recalled that Murcia has the prices of the most expensive tickets in Spain and that, after the application of the 'tarifazo' in 2012 , each trip went from costing 1.10 euros, to 2.10.
This situation affected more than 45,000 inhabitants in lines that were used "massively", which is, in the words of Guirado, a "real nonsense", especially considering that while the bus transport is cut, the tram - which covers part of the northern zone, shopping centers and new urbanizations, receives from the public coffers a total of 12.5 million euros per year, that is, 1.5 million per kilometer.
For his part, Ginés Mirón has insisted that the creation of line 18 in 2012 -which will disappear on March 23- was an "excuse" for the City Council and the Autonomous Community to "load up" 61, which had 34 daily expeditions.
The cost of recovering this line, which would be used by 500 people a day, would mean 120,000 euros for the Consistory, a minimum amount when compared to the millions that are destined to other projects.
The vocal of Cambiemos Murcia has criticized, likewise, that after the cuts that will be made soon slums like San José de la Montaña or Casa de Gallego will be without public transport and its inhabitants will have to travel, on foot or by private car, who has it, about 2 kilometers to go to the reference health center or to Arrixaca.
Two buses and one hour of travel to travel 5 kilometers
Also, Mirón recalled that after the elimination of a line there are "complicated human situations" as is the case of Isabel Ortiz, mother of a 45-year-old man with reduced mobility who has to take two buses to travel from his home in Aljucer to Murcia center.
"More than an hour of travel to travel 5 kilometers", remarked Isabel.
"We ask that the line not be cut, more affordable schedules and stops in conditions," said Isabel, who lives between San Ginés and Aljucer.
Since Cambiemos Murcia have reported that this afternoon, at 20 hours, has convened a meeting of the municipal boards of San Ginés, El Palmar and Aljucer.
The idea, they explain, "is to involve people so that the lines are not cut" and for that they do not rule out citizen mobilizations.
Source: Cambiemos Murcia
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