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The councilor not attached to the City of Murcia, Javier Trigueros, will present to the Plenary on January 25 a motion aimed at increasing and improving communications by rail that currently exist between the city of Murcia and Madrid, since according to points, although "are acceptable" trains that connect Murcia with Madrid in the interval of the week focused from Monday to Friday, "it seems incomprehensible that during weekends rail communication is significantly reduced if we take as a reference the number of trains in the Cartagena-Madrid line in both directions ".

In this same line, Trigueros has indicated that Murcia and its regions have significant population increases and have become exceptional tourist attractions.

"Murcia is the seventh city in Spain in terms of population, a municipality that is in continuous growth and that has given rise to an expansive urbanism of importance".

In addition, he recalled that also the "number of overnight stays has increased significantly in recent years."

For all these reasons and as a Quality Tourism Destination, the councilor has declared that "it would be of vital importance to implement advances in railways centralized mainly in the increase of lines during the weekend."

Also and focusing on the Region of Murcia, the mayor has stressed that as a result of the demand for retired migrants from the overwhelming majority of northern Europe, the region has become the eighth autonomous community with a migration balance over 500 , and jointly, taking into account the recent Law that includes a series of measures aimed at liberalizing trade, "our Autonomous Community should have more and better communications in general and rail in particular."

At the same time, the councilor has pointed out that taking into account that the metropolitan area of ​​Cartagena has about 250 thousand inhabitants, as well as Murcia with about 445 thousand, leaving aside the rest of the towns through which the railroad passes. and that would ostensibly increase the use of this line, "all the optimizations that in this sense could be undertaken are even more necessary".

For all this and to conclude, Javier Trigueros understands as pertinent, on the one hand, maintain the line that joins the Region of Murcia with Madrid first thing in the morning from Monday to Friday, specifically the 5:22 hours from Cartagena and 6:06 hours from Murcia, "making it extendable in the same way to Saturdays and Sundays";

and on the other hand, to conserve the line that connects Madrid with the Region of Murcia at the end of the afternoon, that is to say, the one that leaves at 19:01 hours, "also during Saturdays".

Source: Prensa Javier Trigueros