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The IU-Greens councilor in the city of Murcia, José Ignacio Tornel, said today that currently conducting a feasibility study to take the tram to the neighborhood of El Carmen is not a priority measure to encourage the development of area.

Tornel has held that "there are more important things in which to invest" more than 95,000 euros to the project costs, especially when "not going to run short to medium term" and given the urgent needs of the residents, including is not the tram.

"The study makes less sense when also is concerned the possibility of burying the railway tracks passing through the city, and with them the construction of a large intermodal center in El Carmen that should be the transport hub and shaft to succumb with this project. "

The mayor has criticized the PP improvisation policy on transport and pointed out that the industry Councilman Javier Iniesta, "has on his desk in a study on sustainable urban mobility or have used or plan to use" whose cost amounted to 359,600 euros.

In this regard, said that Iniesta "can save the feasibility study in another drawer and fill the empty space and you should definitely keep in his office at the lack of ideas and projects that respond to the needs of the municipality"

Tornel believes that this announcement "is a diversion of the government team in order to deflect criticism against its citizens against bad management of transport in the municipality."

"The policy promises to hide palpable reality every day has ended. Area Traders need serious work to revitalize their business, not ads nothing cohesive measures to silence their complaints," he qualified.

On the other hand, has argued that "everybody knows that while this study is approved, the residents of the municipality have been cutting a third of its buses, the fare hike, eliminating transportation bonds, and employees of the company have suffered major layoffs and job cuts and wage ".

Furthermore, "is an affront to neighbors who are still waiting the eternal fulfillment of commitments as the burial, the nursery in La Paz, dining or canceled grants or projects that have been announced dead letter as the park of Toyo Ito, the while other projects are renewed in the air. "

It also emphasized that seven months were planned new bus routes in the town and is now deployed in the area poses a route of the tram, two projects "disjointed" and uncoordinated that reflect the "waste and inefficiency "PP.

Source: IURM