The Councilor for Finance, Recruitment and Urban Mobility, Eduardo Martínez-Oliva, has shown his surprise at the words of Mr. Mario Gómez that puts a dent and questions an absolutely pioneering initiative in Spain as the application that makes public transport much more accessible to the visually impaired. "
"It is clear that there is still work to be done, we are committed to it and this is how it will be contemplated in the new bus transport model that is currently preparing the specifications, but this does not mean to acknowledge what is done well, as the president of the Territorial Council of the ONCE, Teresa Lajarín, said as the president of CERMI in Murcia, Pedro Martínez, when he said that we were in luck in our city for the implementation of this novel system for the visually impaired, "he pointed out. the concilor.
Martínez-Oliva explained that "within the ambitious plan of accessibility of the municipality of Murcia has implemented this initiative absolutely pioneering both the tram and urban buses.This application allows you to locate stops autonomously and receive all kinds of information on the times of the buses simply using their mobile device, so blind people can guide themselves without help and independently and obtain reliable and accurate information about the passage of both buses and the tram.
"It is a service provided by a Murcian company that is absolutely new and has no other means of public transport in Spain In fact, are already different Spanish cities which are collecting information on the system to implement it in public transport ", the councilor has finished.
Source: PP Murcia