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The Murcia City Council has expanded the measures adopted in the field of traffic and transport to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, motivated by data on the reduction of the use of public transport by 80% and by the recommendations established by the health authorities.
In this way, from tomorrow the capacity of urban buses and tram is limited to 1/3.
The urban buses will continue to provide service with the 28 buses of the fleet, distributed in 11 lines and that serve more than 420 expeditions will maintain their schedules and frequencies.
This is due to the type of route they take and the capacity of the buses, which enables them to meet the safety requirements for distance between passengers, reducing their capacity by a third.
According to the order issued by the Ministry of Public Works, intercity bus lines, which connect Murcia with its districts, reduce their expeditions by 60%, taking into account that, on those lines in which the number of expeditions is less than 3 none will be suspended.
In the same way, the capacity of the vehicles is reduced to a third of their total capacity, also suspending the stops that connect universities, educational centers and shopping centers.
As for Murcia Tram, the same frequencies are established as in the month of August: 15 minutes at all stops between 7:30 and 21:30 on weekdays;
Saturdays 20 minutes between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., and Sundays and holidays 20 minutes between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. 19:00 hours.
In the rest of the segments the frequency will be every 30 minutes
In addition, in all convoys, which are constantly disinfected properly, the safety distance between passengers is ensured.
After analyzing the different data obtained, which reveal that the circulation of vehicles has decreased by 60% and the use of public transport by 80%, it has been agreed to suspend the ORA and establish its gratuitousness while the state of alarm lasts, which joins the measure approved yesterday in the Public Health Committee of the municipality of Murcia that agreed that parking in ORA areas in the surroundings of hospitals and health centers was free from today for health professionals
What is intended is, on the one hand, to facilitate the confinement of residents and, on the other, that employees who cannot telework from their homes can park as close as possible to their jobs.
All these measures are taken after analyzing the data obtained by the Traffic Service, which has verified that the circulation of vehicles in the city center has decreased by 60% compared to last Monday.
Specifically, the decrease in accesses to Murcia has been 55% and 45% in exits.
By sections, from midnight to 9 am today, the circulation from Teniente Flomesta to the Red Cross has been 3,453 vehicles (last Monday it was 7,028);
from Teniente Flomesta to Plano San Francisco in 1964 (last Monday it was 3,468);
from Gran Vía to Banco de España of 1,552 (last Monday it was 3,683);
from Plaza Circular to Juan XXIII it was 1,619 (last Monday it was 3,633);
from Juan XXIII to Plaza Circular it was 1,463 (last Monday it was 3,536);
from Primo de Rivera to Ronda Norte it was 1,094 (last Monday it was 2,893);
and from Primo de Rivera to Plaza Circular it has been 1,715 (last Monday it was 3,965.
If you compare last Saturday with the same day of the previous week, the reduction in traffic was 56%, while in both entrances and exits the decrease was 55%.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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