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In the first ten months of the year 220,051 trips have been recorded more than in the same period of 2017 and October 3 has been the day with more travelers in a single day.

The Councilor for Finance, Contracting and Urban Mobility, Eduardo Martínez-Oliva believes that 'these figures have much to do with the policies we are carrying out to encourage the use of public transport, offering quality at affordable prices, which translates into that the Murcians make more use of the tram '.

The number of passengers on the Murcia tramway improves the growth trend at this beginning of the year.

In this sense, the month of October has beaten record of travelers with 609.740 users, while in the same month of the previous year there were 546.789 validations.

The growth of demand in this month of October was 11.50% and compared to the calendar year, 5.75%, which means that in the first ten months of the year 220,051 trips have been recorded more than in the same period from last year.

The record of trips, in a single day, has also been broken this October - on Wednesday 3-, which has exceeded the previous mark 5 times, which was 25,938 travelers, reaching 27,208 travelers.

As of October 31, 32.5 million travelers were exceeded, since the tram line 1 entered service on May 28, 2011.

The Councilor for Finance, Contracting and Urban Mobility, Eduardo Martínez-Oliva believes that 'these figures have much to do with the policies we are carrying out to encourage the use of public transport in the municipality, offering quality at affordable prices, which it translates into that the Murcians make more use of the tram '

Regarding the contribution in the improvement of air quality in Murcia, taking as the average CO2 emission ratio of a vehicle in 0.168 kg / km (IDAE, Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving), under the hypothesis of that travelers, if they did not use this means of transport, had to travel by private vehicle, estimating an average occupation of 1.3 persons per vehicle, with an average route of 6.5 km, we would reach the figure of 27,300 tons of CO2, which have stopped emitting to the air we breathe in the city of Murcia.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia