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MC Cartagena will demand, during the November plenary session, that the municipal Corporation urge the State Government to increase the frequency of the hybrid trains that cover the Cartagena-Madrid line to facilitate the connection of the municipality with the different lines of the rest of the country.

Also, the optimization of the rail service between Cartagena and Murcia will be requested and the price of the fare will be reduced for all users.

The spokesman of the municipal group, José López, criticized, this morning, that "the improvisation of the PSOE regarding the already famous hybrid train has caused Cartagena to lose its rail connection, since it delayed the departure time of the first train in the morning assumes that users can not change in Murcia to Barcelona, ​​also losing the link to France. "

In this sense it should be added that previously the first train of the morning left Cartagena at 5:22 hours, arriving at the Carmen station in Murcia at 06:05 and allowing the transfer to Barcelona at 06:30.

"All this for a saving of 28 minutes on the Cartagena-Madrid route, if all the stars are aligned and the train is not damaged." In this situation, from MC we will demand that an increased frequency be implemented with immediate effect with adequate schedules that improves the railway connection of Cartagena with the rest of the lines and does not aggravate the current isolation that we suffer ", explained López.

The mayor of Cartagena has shown how "improvisation and disinterest in solving real problems that has shown the socialist government only brings with it the creation of other problems of the same or greater draft."

Surroundings

MC will also request the urgent improvement of the rail connection between Cartagena and Murcia since, as the spokesperson of MC has indicated, "the Cartagena-Murcia tariff is exorbitant, since there is no commuter train you have to travel in the Altaria that costs 18 euros, which is why the Regional Express price category should apply, and the ticket would cost 6.10 euros, the same as students pay ".

To apply student vouchers, Renfe blocks or reserves two cars on the hybrid train, that is, 72 seats, and a car on the Altaria, 30 seats.

However, Murcia sells all the tickets without having to reserve cars for students. But on the trains leaving from Cartagena there is the inconvenience that, from Friday to Sunday, travelers often run out of tickets, sometimes circulating those two empty cars because students those days are the least traveled.

In addition, José López added that "the station in Cartagena is also degraded in terms of personnel, in fact, in the morning there is no staff and we are afraid that as they retire they will not hire new staff".

In this context, the Cartagena councilman has concluded stating that the terrible connection between Cartagena and Murcia "is the result of incompetence or arrogance, because this situation is known by politicians of one and another sign since September could be launched Even the current government delegate announced that he will start the commuter service, but he has not done so, evidencing once again that Cartagena is only for popular and socialist a perfect scenario for partisan announcements that never reach become reality. "

Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena