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Promote and improve public transport is the main objective of the City of Murcia Autonomous Community with the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding has been signed this morning at the Palacio de San Esteban between the Minister of Public Works and Planning, José Ballesta, and the mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara.
The purpose of this agreement is to initiate a process of ongoing cooperation for future cohesion through the Public Transport Authority, in order to jointly promote the management of public transport within the municipality of Murcia.
The Public Transport Authority, an agency of the Ministry of Public Works and Planning, and the city of Murcia undertake in this Memorandum of Understanding, to develop the technical and legal frameworks needed to cooperation between government and the other agencies and companies that take part in collective passenger transport in the city of Murcia.
In recent years, the municipality of Murcia and its catchment area have experienced a significant growth of both its population and economic activity, resulting in increased mobility, both pedestrian and road traffic, which requires close collaboration between the two governments aimed to provide the solutions necessary to reduce the impact of increased traffic and mobility needs in the city.
The Autonomous Community of Murcia and the City agree to take the necessary measures to coordinate economic, technical and administrative to optimize transportation in Murcia, through the Public Transport Authority.
The main objective of the agreement is the promotion of public transport, thereby contributing to energy savings and lower congestion in the city-by reducing the number of private vehicles-and improve environmental quality in the region and their sustainability.
The implementation of these policies will take place gradually, with the addition at the time of the conclusions and recommendations of the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan of the Municipality of Murcia and giving priority to fare integration.
The intention is to create in the manner of the big cities like Madrid or Barcelona, a single ticket that will solve the problem of transshipment in the center of the city or between cities with strong units and where it is possible to resolve shifts once .
The first will be the university
As a first fruit of this collaboration between the Ministry, through the Public-Transportation and the City of Murcia UNIBON born, the first step to the next fare integration.
For the first time the university settled a longstanding demand are: a monthly ticket at a price of 20 euros, which will enable them to make as many trips as you wish.
The card comes with the premise to travel more for less, promoting and enhancing public transport between a group as sensitive to rising rates as students of different campuses, to which annually produce more than two million displaced since the town and hamlets, so that this initiative will benefit thousands of people using the lines daily with campus and have the highest passenger flow in the region.
Unlimited university UNIBON
The new UNIBON be personal and not transferable, and will make unlimited travel on all public transport lines in both urban and interurban the municipality of Murcia, 365 days a year.
To Ballesta, "This is a historic event for the students, so getting a substantial improvement in the accessibility of college campuses."
UNIBON To apply, you must fill out a form through the website and collect www.unibono.es where requested, in the offices of the Public Transport in Latbus those of the Avenida de la Libertad or the Carretera de El Palmar, or at the bus station.
In addition, the University of Murcia may apply in Classrooms Open Access at the University of Murcia, or the Information Services University (SIU) of La Merced and Espinardo, while at the Catholic University may withdraw the service Student Information (SIS).
The payment will be made on the bus, when you start using the bonus.
This initiative was made possible by the signing of an agreement between the Ministry of Public Works and Planning and Latbus, in collaboration with the City.
With this agreement, the company has also undertaken to improve transport infrastructure college.
According to the Minister of Public Works, "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. "
All information on this new card is on page www.unibono.es
Source: CARM
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