The Minister of Development, José Ramón Díez de Revenga, encourages the mayors of the ten municipalities involved in a meeting to join the project
Nearly 700,000 people will benefit from the Metropolitan Area project that the Ministry of Development is designing with the councils of the ten municipalities that it will affect. The Community wants to give a boost to this ambitious public transport plan, which will work as an integrating network of bus, suburban, taxi and tram services, in those towns that have these services.
For this, the councilor José Ramón Díez de Revenga took another step this Friday and met with nine of the ten aldermen (the mayor of Murcia, José Antonio Serrano, announced that he would not attend to denounce that the Consistory has assumed the bus service in districts without funding, which amounts to eight million euros per year) to invite them to join the project.
«The metropolitan area is created when cities grow beyond their administrative limits, and therefore begins to be the responsibility of many different administrations. When that happens, it is important to coordinate all these administrations so that administrative limitations do not become an obstacle in the provision of public service”, explained Díez de Revenga
The metropolitan area will serve the 672,000 citizens of the municipalities of Murcia, Molina de Segura, Alcantarilla, Beniel, Alguazas, Lorquí, Ceutí, Las Torres de Cotillas, Santomera and Archena.
According to Fomento, it aims to be a service planned in an integral way from the beginning to meet the needs of users and be more efficient when offering the public transport service, even more so at this time when the price of fuel is skyrocketing. .
The ideal photograph, described the counselor, is one in which a user takes a train in Alguazas, arrives at the Carmen de Murcia station, gets off to take a taxi to the center of the capital and returns by bus to Molina de Segura. All by making a single payment, with a single ticket.
“It is essential that the municipalities in the area of influence officially join this framework of collaboration whose primary objective is to promote sustainable mobility services that respond to the needs of users and reduce greenhouse gas emissions”, declared the counselor during the meeting held with the municipal representatives that make up this area.
The following steps
Once the protocol between the administrations has been signed, a working and monitoring group will be set up to make effective the will and purposes of the agreement signed for the improvement of public transport through studies.
The next step will be the signing of an agreement that has a greater scope than the protocol, since economic resources will be allocated in order to draw up the Metropolitan Transport Plan for Murcia, which will include tariff measures and transport services.
Parallel to the plan, progress will be made in the drafting of the constitution statutes of the Metropolitan Transport Authority, which will be an autonomous body with its own resources and management structure, allowing the transfer of powers to the entity.
This entity will be the figure that will hold delegated powers from the different administrations and, above all, will have autonomy of management and operation to design and implement measures to improve transport and adapt it to the real travel needs of citizens.
Topics
José Ramón Díez de Revenga, Alcantarilla, Alguazas, Archena, Beniel, Ceutí, Las Torres de Cotillas, Lorquí, Molina de Segura, Santomera, Public transport
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