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Murcia UPyD spokesman, Ruben Juan Serna, remember that the feasibility study prepared by EPYPSA for Murcia Consistory expected 27 000 passengers per day in 2011, the year of commencement of their operations, far from the 11 000 daily depending on the equipment Government used the tram, "so we fail to understand how it can cause any satisfaction"

Union, Progress and Democracy in the city of Murcia, through his spokesman Ruben Juan Serna, says the number of tram users published by Councilman Traffic and Transportation, Javier Iniesta, "far from excite confirms the failure of its layout "assume a cost plus" brutal "about 10 million per year to city coffers.

Serna recalled that the feasibility study prepared by EPYPSA for Murcia Consistory expected 27 000 passengers per day in 2011, the year of commencement of their operations, far from the 11 000 daily according to the government team used the tram, "so we fail to understand how it can cause any satisfaction. "

As explained Serna, if the annual passenger growth continues at a rate of 33% "something that is a very big", following the same progression will take several years to reach the numbers predicted that feasibility report for 2011.

"We regret that as regards the government team tram settle for so little," he remarks.

The training emphasizes the tram "is a conveyance clean and efficient" but in Murcia was screened with a path "absolutely wrong" that excludes Arrixaca Hospital, the industrial area of ​​San Ginés and nuclei with higher density population "as it arrives to shopping malls, private universities and desert areas."

"Iniesta speaks Councilman retail and real estate recovery in the Juan de Borbon, but the reality is that the tram runs through an area victim of the housing bubble."

Concerning the extension of the route to the district of El Carmen, Murcia UPyD questioned the tramway as the issue of the excavation of the routes and the arrival of the High Speed ​​"today are in the air."

As explained Serna, before ordering a project whose cost to the city coffers is more than 95 000 euro, you must first be fully resolved the issue of the underground and the role it will play the current season or announced in Los Dolores.

Finally, Murcia UPyD spokesman welcomes the announcement of the ticket only "authentic Consistory pending", but insists on defending "quality public transport, efficient, managed through a single municipal enterprise" with a single ticket for both The tram and urban and interurban lines bus.

Source: UPyD Murcia