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Cartagena City Council continues to work on its firm commitment to improve sustainable mobility to reduce traffic and pollution and for this, from the Department of Infrastructures with the collaboration of the concessionaire of the municipal urban transport service, ALSA, has launched the Plan M17, a pilot experience that consists in the creation of two bus lines that will bring the urban helmet to all the districts and councils, coinciding with the Christmas holidays.
The Mayor of Cartagena and Councilor for Infrastructure, José López, was in charge of presenting all the details of this new service on Monday, December 20, at the Palace Hall.
The first mayor has been accompanied by the director of the Mediterranean zone of Alsa, Valeriano Diaz, as well as the general director of Infrastructure, Manuel Nicolás Rubio.
The first mayor stressed that the operation of these bus lines will yield concrete data to assess the implementation of lines or the variation of others already existing.
M17 will be added to other measures that are expected to begin next year to improve mobility in the city, such as the implementation of cameras and signals to control access to the old town or the implementation of zones 30 where the limitation of The speed at thirty kilometers per hour will favor, according to Lopez, the coexistence in the traffic of passenger cars and pedestrians and bicycles.
Another of the mobility challenges for the city will be the excavation of the amphitheater and the works that will start in the university district, where the City Council will work with the UPCT, to, as has been commented the mayor, reorder traffic and parking in the plaza of the University.
M-17: RAMBLA-CARTAGONOVA AND SEVERO OCHOA
The lines, whose plane and stops can be consulted in the following link, will make a circular route and will have the denomination of M-17-I Rambla-Cartagonova and M-17-II Severo Ochoa.
Both will be free until January 17 and depart from the authorized deterrent car parks.
Line M-17-I will have a morning schedule every 30 minutes from 7.30, and every 15 minutes in the afternoon from 16.00 to 22.00 hours.
The M-17-II line will have a frequency of 20 minutes from 7.30 am to 10 pm.
FREE MUNICIPAL BUS LINES THE KING'S EVE
In addition, the mayor has announced that all municipal bus lines will be free from 3:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. on January 5, the eve of Reyes' night and the afternoon of the cavalcade.
NORMALITY AFTER THE RAINFALL
Regarding last weekend's rainy weather, and questions from journalists, the mayor, José López, stressed that the good performance of the municipal services of Urbanism, Fire and Police throughout the day of Sunday has allowed to return To normality after the heavy rains of the weekend, thanks to God nothing especially remarkable, except for specific cases, some of them because of imprudence.
In addition, added the first mayor who last night was also quiet, with about 50 exits mostly by tree falls whose trunks were dry inside.
The most affected area has been in the south arch of the Mar Menor, where run-off from agricultural overexploitation has taken muds to Playa Honda, Mar de Cristal, Islas Menores, Los Nietos and Los Urrutias. Of Levante in Cabo de Palos.
As for the suspension of classes Monday in the schools of the municipality, López has highlighted that unlike other cities, as is the case of Murcia, in Cartagena only seven centers yesterday presented problems for being flooded accesses and courtyards , So it has launched a plea to the Ministry of Education, from here I beg the counselor to be responsible with children and close only schools that are flooded.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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