Since its launch in 2005 the youth organization insisted that the service could be funded exclusively through the sale of tickets and without using public money.
The Local Council requests that the amount previously used for this service is currently engaged in the promotion of public transport among young people.
The Local Youth Council of Murcia welcomes maintenance night transport service in the city of Murcia and that this does not involve an outlay of government, as the Owl Bus is profitable for the concessionaire LatBus and, Therefore, the extra contribution that had been supporting since 2005 was unnecessary.
This thesis was that kept the youth organization that planned a new nightly shuttle to the withdrawal-without notice-of LatBus and weeks after hearing of the draft submitted by the Local Youth Council to the General Directorate of Transport quick to restart, but this time without cost for administration.
Also, the Local Youth Council insists that the city of Murcia and the Autonomous invest the amounts previously used to subsidize the Owl Bus and that no longer are needed for self-sufficiency of service, promotion campaigns public transport among young people.
After meeting today in the resolution of the General Directorate of Transport on the draft submitted by the Local Council with the refusal of the Autonomous Community, the youth organization is satisfied because thanks to his mediation service was restored immediately by the concessionaire.
Latbus restarted the project when the local council announced that it would carry out on their own.
From the Council notice of institutional disloyalty conducted by the Department of Transportation has informed the media before doing so directly to the Board.
For the President, Fran Sanchez, this topic did not act with the same good faith that did the Youth Council that was made available from the Director General to resolve the conflict generated by Latbus and protected by the spread General.
The president of the Youth Council, Fran Sanchez, warns that "can not rule back to the citizens and the political class should make greater efforts in transparency and efficiency."
Source: Consejo Local de la Juventud de Murcia