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The mayor Juan Vicente Larrosa denounces that someone who has a medical appointment at 11 am should take the bus at 7 am, and then have to return, although it is worse for students who leave at 2 pm and have to wait until 17h to return

The Socialist Municipal Group is collecting the complaints and discomfort of many neighbors of Zeneta, one of the farthest districts of the city and worse communicated, for remaining since last September 18 without public transport service up to four hours during the days weekdays, what the PSOE councilor Juan Vicente Larrosa considers "a huge nonsense."

Until September 18, the population had a bus every hour, but after the floods and destruction by the cold drop, the bridge over the Rambla de Tabala was unusable, so all traffic has had to be diverted, including the public transport.

Therefore, Larrosa wonders if this decision to reduce the frequency of buses has been adopted unilaterally by the company LAT or if the Ministry of Development has had something to do.

"Of course, if this is a decision of the Minister of Development, responsible for both transport and the arrangement of the bridge, it has been covered with glory, because there are other alternatives before leaving the neighbors isolated, of course, as this politician is especially pending If we look for reasons of confrontation with the central government, we understand that it leaves aside what is its responsibility and competence, which is none other than maintaining and improving the public transport service, "says Larrosa, who says that the traffic diversion would have had much less impact on users "if instead of removing buses the frequency had been maintained by changing the departure times ten minutes could have corrected the approximately three kilometers that are increased with the itinerary change".

The councilor points out that "the biggest victims of this change are the residents of Zeneta, but it also affects users from Beniaján and Los Ramos, many of whom stay at the stops because the buses are full."

To this we must add that "a neighbor who has a medical appointment at 11 am at Reina Sofía or in the center of Infante must take the bus at 7 am and leave all morning, but the students have worse, many of whom they have to connect with other lines, which leave at 2pm, who do not have time to catch the bus, which can get crowded, so they would have to wait until 5pm. In the end, the governments of PP and Cs , both in the City Council and in the Community, condemn the population to use the private car. "

Therefore, he criticizes that neither the councilor responsible for Transportation and Traffic nor the mayor himself have taken action on the matter.

"As they always stand idly by watching them come, so it is not surprising that in the European Mobility Week, aimed at raising awareness in efficient public transport and reducing the use of private cars, the only activity developed by the City Council of the seventh municipality from Spain, be a bicycle repair shop. "

Of course, "those responsible for government, in the Community and in the City Council, demonstrate a manifest inability to reduce traffic, to reduce pollution and to develop a public transport network that provides comprehensive, agile and efficient service to the entire municipality ".

Source: PSOE Murcia