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The director general of Transport and Highways, Carmen Sandoval, and the managing director of the Public Transport Authority, Jose Guillen, announced this morning at a press conference that the Autonomous Community will finance 61 percent of the ticket price of university transport Campus de Espinardo, which remains at 0.45 euros.

This measure, which comes into effect on Monday coinciding with the commissioning of transmission lines and starting university exams in September, it was agreed at the meeting today that have maintained Sandoval and Guillen with the Director General of Universities, Juana Maria Zapata, the council of Housing, Transport and Trade of the City of Murcia, Antonio Castillo, Vice President for Student Coordinator at the University of Murcia, Francisco González, and the CEO and President of Latbus, Angel Jiménez and José Luis Sanchez, respectively.

The meeting agreed on the ultimate conditions for the signing of the agreement concluded with the Ministry Latbus, for which Public Works, through the Public Transport Authority, deducted $ 0.50 for each trip of the bonds purchased by the university to get around the Campus de Espinardo.

This reduction is in addition to $ 0.20 currently funded by the Directorate General of Universities, which represents a total discount of 0.70 euros regular ticket price, which stood at 1.15 euros.

In this way the students, instead of paying 20 euros for a bonus of 21 trips, paid 15 euros for one of 33 trips.

In addition, the City of Murcia subsidizes the entire amount of travel for large families special.

In this regard, the managing director of the Public Transport Authority stated that "This agreement demonstrates the firm commitment of the regional government for the improvement and promotion of the use of public transport and, in particular by supporting a group so sensitive to rate increases as the university, which is on public transport commuting their environment, a habit that not only help save energy and decrease congestion in the cities, by reducing the number of private vehicles, " but directly affecting the environmental quality of the region and their sustainability. "

Affect the lines 39, 38, 21, 22 and 26

The grant to the Ministry of Works, Housing and Transport granted to the concessionaire, through the Public Transport Authority, amounting to 840,000 euros and involves six lines, the number 39, 38, 21, 22, 41 and 42 , that perform more than 553 daily departures to the Campus de Espinardo, recorded 16,674 passengers daily.

This represents over 1,700,000 trips per year, which makes this route in the corridor with the highest number of passengers in the Region of Murcia.

In this regard, Sandoval said, "With the signing of this agreement guarantees the right to mobility and promoting access to university education, it is less costly to the economies of Murcia families this additional expenditure, but necessary who donate their children's education. "

Finally, Guillen said that thanks to the lines of cooperation established between the various agencies of the regional administration, the city of Murcia and UMU, "students can purchase the bus pass at an affordable price, a move that will benefit thousands of daily users using lines running through the campus and have the highest passenger flow in the region. "

Also, Guillen announced that already are considering new initiatives to improve transport and various university policies for the promotion of public transport in the region.

Source: CARM