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After six years of claims, and a year of intense mobilization, the residents of San José de la Montaña, El Palmar, San Ginés and Aljucer have managed to get the Regional Government to reintroduce the bus line that joins these districts, according to have explained from the Platform for the Recovery of Line 61.
Under the name 26B, a bus service will cover, from December 21, the route agreed by the neighborhood assembly convened in October, after the Platform delivered more than 1,300 signatures to the General Directorate of Transport, "collected in just one week".
At the proposal of the four opposition groups, and unanimously, the City of Murcia committed in May to finance with 200,000 euros from the 2018 budget the restitution of the service, which was estimated to be half of the annual maintenance of this line.
From there, dozens of residents and neighbors convened rallies and demonstrations for the Autonomous Community to reach an agreement with the concessionaire of public transport, Latbus.
According to Enrique Saura, member of the Platform, "this victory shows that the fight works, yesterday the neighbors were not only happy, they were proud of not having surrendered and of having reached the end of this tortuous road".
"This is good news, especially for the elderly or those in a situation of dependency who since 2012 had no way of approaching the center or the reference hospitals to receive healthcare."
Source: Plataforma por la Recuperación de la Línea 61
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