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The Platform for the Recovery of Line 61 has expressed its disappointment at the "lack of sensitivity" of the regional government and, in particular, of the General Director of Transport, "José Ramón Diez de Revenga, with whom he met yesterday and who literally He told the attendees at the meeting that "I was not going to put a line for four neighbors, nor a bus for each neighbor at his door."

The purpose of the meeting was to transfer to the Autonomous Community the agreement of the Plenary of the City of Murcia, which, on the proposal of the four opposition groups and unanimously, committed to finance with 200,000 euros of the 2018 budget the restitution of the service, "what is estimated is half of the annual deficit of this line".

The neighbors have explained that line 18, which replaces 61 since its elimination in 2012, does not cover the needs of residents in San José de la Montaña, El Palmar, San Ginés and Aljucer, "especially for the elderly or in a situation of dependency that they need to approach the center or the reference hospitals to receive healthcare. "

In this sense, when he was told that some neighbors have to cross the entire village of Aljucer to get to the El Palmar road stop, Diez de Revenga answered "to take a taxi".

In spite of that, the Platform moved him to Diez de Revenga, which is "open to possible solutions such as a restructuring of the 18th so that all the expeditions arrive in Murcia and not only five daily as it happens during the week".

Both lines, like all those that connect the districts, are of regional ownership, so it must be the Autonomous Community that modifies the contract with the public transport concessionaire, Latbus.

Source: Cambiemos Murcia