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Ruben Juan Serna, spokeswoman for the formation magenta, says data from the National Statistics Institute (INE), reflecting a 3.5 percent drop in the number of passengers by bus in the region, the second worst in Spain , "only confirm that a change of direction that will yield an effective public service is necessary"

The spokesman for Progress and Democracy Union in the city of Murcia, Juan Ruben Serna, criticizes the "misguided policy" carried out from the local and regional administration in transport after the figures provided by the National Statistics Institute (INE) reflecting a 3.5 percent drop in the number of passengers by bus, the second worst in Spain.

Serna recalled that in the town of Murcia lies more than 30 percent of the total regional population, "so these data not only confirm that a change of direction that will yield an effective public service is necessary."

To spokesman magenta training, "there other urgent issues to resolve in transport in the town rather than continue allocating budget to the extension of tram route."

"Right now there are overlapping lines, towns offline, managing different transport companies and still get going much needed one trip to the combination of different media."

"I mean," continued Serna, "We are facing a situation regarding transportation in general and bus disastrous particular," which causes the constant drain of users who are pushed to the use of private vehicles, "something which in turn contributes to worsen the situation. "

UPyD Murcia insists that the first solution is the recovery of skills in transport by the council, for a single administration manage the entire transport, "and not the current three."

"The City Council should take over transport as complex as Murcia town, with many remote villages among themselves, undertaking a reorganization of rational lines and launching the only ticket."

For the mayor these measures are necessary to improve the system and service to citizens, encouraging the use of public transport and ensure its viability.

Also, "should be encouraged to use public transport reversing the rise of the ticket price, especially due to the economic crisis of Murcia families."

Asismo remember that UPyD presented initiatives to implement the grants and subsidies based on income, progressively, so that they could choose to needy families without means achieving a much fairer system.

Finally, he argues that "if the tram is not profitable right now" is something only the fault of the government of the Popular Party, and he chose to operate this transport with an "absolutely wrong" path that excluded large nuclei population.

Source: UPyD Murcia