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- The mayor says that said the sheet states that "initially the system will start with 40 benches and the forecast is that in 10 years grow to 130".

"This would mean an average of 9 new benches open each year, something that is not only not happening, but, on the contrary, are closing stations"

NOW MURCIA denounces that the public bicycle rental service, MuyBICI, has closed a third bank, specifically the one located in the avenue of Fame, next to the municipal library.

The councilor Alicia Morales recalls that in the last months "already closed two other stations, the one of the Palace of Sports and the one of San Juan de la Cruz, in the Infante".

The mayor says that these three stations appeared in the technical specifications of MUyBICI, "so that is being left without service to areas of the municipality that the contract established as priority."

Morales said that these closures "represent a breach of the technical specifications of the contract of the City Council with the concessionaire, as this reflected the locations that are considered fundamental to vertebrate cycling communication between the different peripheral neighborhoods and the downtown area" , And between these locations are the three cited that have been closed.

The spokeswoman of Now Murcia stresses that "the company can not modify aspects of the specifications to its will, but rather correspond to the City according to the Law of Public Service Contracts."

The mayor says that the specification "refers to the expansion of the number of benches and the introduction of improvements in the service, but does not give the company the power to decide the closure of benches."

Now Murcia has written in writing to the Council of Urbanism, responsible for the service, requesting the reopening of these stations, as well as a copy of the reports regarding the closure of the Fama.

The councilwoman said that the document stated that "initially the system will start with 40 bicycle lending stations and the forecast is that in 10 years grow to 130".

"This would mean," he reasoned, "an average of 9 new benches open each year, something that is not only not happening, but, on the contrary, stations are closing, thus reducing the quality of service provided to citizens ".

Morales points out that "different users have complained to us that very often between all MUyBICI stations in the El Carmen and Infante areas they add less than ten vehicles something that users check through the service 'app' and That on many occasions there is not a single bicycle to that side of the river, reason why they are forced to move until the zone of the Glorieta, Palace Almudí, etc. ".

The spokeswoman of Now Murcia considers it necessary a greater involvement of the City "in the supervision of services of this type, which can not be left to the whim of the company, attending only to economic exploitation or isolated incidents."

Source: Ahora Murcia