The City maintains its policy of offering a quality public transport and accessible.
According to data from the Department of Traffic and Transportation 20,300 people are already benefiting from bonuses that allow them to travel at cheaper prices.
Thus, 100 Bonus for retirees and pensioners reaches 13,300 travelers, Large bonus preference of 3,600 and 3,400 large family generally.
In 2013 nearly three million journeys using any of these bonds (1.6 Bond 100, 800,000 of Large Families of special category of Large Families 500,000 general category) were performed
To offer this discount on the ticket price, the City has invested in this exercise four million euros, intended to concessionaires Latbus, Tramway and Transport Murcia Murcia.
Councilman Javier Iniesta explained that "in the motion that present the Municipal Socialist Group and IU-Greens at the next plenary ask the bond reaches 100 lines of districts, where, during 2013, 1,263,015 trips were made using this bono ".
"I think these opposition groups living in a parallel reality, unaware of what is happening in the town and are so bold that they will ask for en banc something that already exists."
In the same motion a point at which it is requested to urge the community to implement a bonus on public transport for students of intermediate education, "something already proposed and passed in Parliament last May in the included we asked the Ministry of Public Works Bond University to be extended to students of Primary and Secondary Municipality of Murcia ".
The Municipal Socialist Group and IU-Greens abstained from voting.
Iniesta added that "in addition to cheating, plagiarism and present ownership of this motion, which shows an alarming lack of initiative, will present another that requests the bus Ermita del Rosario also work in the afternoon, which is already solved and starting next year. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia