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Latbus is forced to announce the immediate and indefinite suppression of Owl-Bus service once Murcia City Council has decided to cancel 15 January municipal agreements that were established at the same economic subsidies.
The resolution of the council of transport, Javier Iniesta believes that economic aid council is "a benefit to a limited set of specific users at night" and argues the decision noting that balances "other urban public transport needs".
Latbus believes "the mayor Iniesta manages public transport back to Murcia, not only young people who live in the villages, but also to those who use this service regularly on weekends to get around the city by issues leisure and work. "
The company argues his defense of Owl-Bus service on the finding that "it is the only service that, unlike the rest, has registered a 33.44% increase in demand over the past years, from 38,998 travelers in 2009 to 52,039 in 2012, according to data held by the City Council. "
"These users are the same that are disadvantaged, since the absence of aid prevents the service" the company says.
A municipal service
The company asked the consistory, through the submissions to this unilateral decision, "prior coordination between City and Region of all services to be provided to the Murcia and joint action on it," application has been denied by the municipality through the decision issued Tuesday.
Councilman Iniesta considers in its decision that it is a service "whose implementation and competence corresponds to the region of Murcia" ignoring the fact that it is a 100% local initiative launched in 2005 at the request of the Local Youth Council, with but without citing its authorization at any time to the Autonomous Community, as announced to the media.
(Attached is a press release issued by the City)
The company is confident that "the mayor rectify this decision and his council of transport, establishing once and for all a rational distribution of budgets, and can not justify the withdrawal of the subsidy by a shortage of funds, where the Owl-Bus accounts for 0.08% of the total budget for public transport of the city council in 2013. "
Latbus remember that sustainability is a concept that necessarily offer alternatives to private transport because it is the best choice for ecological management of resources "and decisions like this encourage the use of private vehicles, in addition to compromising road safety of young ".
The Owl-Bus made last weekend the last tours of the city of Murcia.
Source: Latbus
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