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The spokesman for IU-Greens in the city of Murcia, Esther Herguedas, said today that the announcement of Councilman Traffic and Transportation, Javier Iniesta on the construction of a new tram line "can only be interpreted as a superfluous luxury not meets the needs of the population. "
Herguedas announce Iniesta has criticized this line "when both the council and the Autonomous Region have cut public transport, conditioning the right to mobility of citizens, especially those living in the districts."
He indicated that his training believes in intermodality and public transportation as the backbone of the municipal mobility, but have you considered that "right now the tram is an expensive instrument that has failed to solve the transportation problems of the municipality."
"Moreover, he has worsened since has eaten most of the municipal budget for transport."
According to the mayor, the economic efforts should focus on improving the public bus transport and deploy a true sustainable mobility plan in place to have alternative means of transport such as cycling and intermodality, postponing the tram to these needs remain unresolved.
With regard to the specific project presented by Iniesta, Herguedas criticized the location of the bike path, which would be shared with vehicles on the Gran Via, which "contravene the provisions of the Master Plan for the City Council's Bike".
Therefore, he has advanced to IU-Greens for carefully analyze the project and will be in touch with citizen groups to make representations to it.
Source: IURM
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