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The City Council has prepared a complete security and cleaning device for the Pilgrimage of Fuensanta.

Thus, on Monday 10, the Department of Traffic and Public Safety from the early hours of the morning will establish a security device, for total control of the area, cutting access traffic when the situation requires it.

This will require 84 agents, 16 patrol cars and a crane.

The Fire Service, Environmental Agents and Civil Protection will also be present.

On Tuesday, the day of the Pilgrimage, there will be 208 police officers, 26 radio patrol cars, 32 motorcycles and 3 cranes.

Next to the esplanade of the Sanctuary of the Fuensanta will be installed, from the dawn of September 11, a Mobile Office of Attention to the Citizen of the Local Police of Murcia.

The Fire Service will locate a unit between the Sanctuary and the Theatines, in front of the old Seminary, and another one in the esplanade of the Sanctuary.

The Red Cross will be installed in the esplanade of the Sanctuary and at the crossing of the Valley road to the climb to the Teatinos.

In addition, Civil Protection will mount a service from 6 to 20 hours, with 75 people and 9 vehicles.

This year, in addition, Civil Protection will install two field hospitals, one at the intersection called El Labrador, specifically in the Finca de la Cierva, with 25 members of health personnel and 1 basic life support ambulance and the other at the intersection of Teatinos.

The Rescue Service will be located next to the Fire Department, at the point in front of the old Seminar, and will be made up of 8 people.

The bus service, in relation to the Pilgrimage, will have its stop in the city, in Alameda de Colón, and in Algezares, in Pintor Antonio Roca Martínez street, from where they will return once the Virgin has started the ascent to the Sanctuary.

The cuts or traffic restrictions tomorrow night and Tuesday will be numerous, especially on the Carretera de Algezares, as well as the districts of Los Garres, Santo Ángel and La Alberca.

In this way, the accesses to the Sanctuary from Algezares and from the intersection of the Urbanization Los Teatinos will be completely cut off to traffic starting tomorrow night, while the road that links this district with Santo Ángel, to El Charco, will be prohibited circulation from 7 o'clock on Tuesday and, in the opposite direction, from one hour later.

Normality will not recover until the influx of the public allows it, something that usually does not happen until the afternoon.

On the other hand, the climb to El Valle from La Alberca will be cut at 7 o'clock on Monday, and the MU-302, from Los Garres to Algezares, starting at 8 o'clock.

The Local Police will report promptly the incidents in the traffic from your Twitter account @murciapolicia

Cleaning device

The Department of Infrastructure, Public Works and Services has also prepared a special device for the Pilgrimage of the Virgen de la Fuensanta.

This special device is developed over four days, and 119 people and 41 vehicles will work.

Tomorrow, Monday, the surroundings of the Fuensanta will be cleaned, employing a total of 12 people with machinery.

During the day of the Pilgrimage, the garbage collection schedule of that area will be advanced so that the containers located along the route are empty early in the morning.

On the 12th, at 6 o'clock, there will be a review of the itinerary contemplating the container points and the bins.

On the tour will be placed twelve selective collection points and 48 portable toilets.

After the mass, in the Plaza Belluga and in La Glorieta, specialists pawns with a scrubber and a hidrolimpiador team, they will clean the remains of wax.

Also, 3,000 candle holders will be distributed among the pilgrims, to be placed in the candles and to avoid the spillage of the wax on the pavement.

Behind the retinue, there will be a special team consisting of 4 foremen, 14 drivers, 4 pawns specialists, 16 cleaning pawns, 2 tanker truck, 2 multilift truck with box, 10 street sweepers and 4 sidewalk sweepers.

During the two days after the Pilgrimage, cleaning work will be carried out in the surroundings of the Fuensanta with 3 foremen, 8 drivers, forty-three pawns, 2 collection trucks, 1 tanker truck, three road sweepers and two multilift trucks.

To give continuity to the public awareness campaigns carried out by the City Council, at the beginning of the ascent to the mountain a caravan will be placed, where a team will distribute 10,000 biodegradable bags with the 4 colors of the selective collection under the slogan of the campaign ' Do not be Marrano 'who will remind pilgrims of the need to keep their city clean and take care of the environment through recycling.

Similarly, another similar caravan will be available in the Sanctuary of Fuensanta where a team of service workers will also request citizen collaboration in cleaning.

Special tram service

The Department of Finance, Contracting and Urban Mobility and Tram of Murcia organize a special transport service for the night of Monday, September 10, so that citizens can move throughout the night both to the center and to the concert that is It will be held on the esplanade of the Nueva Condomina shopping center.

This will reinforce the frequencies in the departure times of trams from Nueva Condomina between 21:30 and 00:00 h., Maintaining frequencies of 15 minutes.

From Plaza Circular the frequencies will be 10 minutes until 23:00 h.

and from 15 minutes until 01:00.

In addition, the service will be extended throughout the night on Line 1 (except Lanzadera to UCAM), carrying out full services until 02:00 h.

approximately, with departure frequencies from Nueva Condomina of 30 minutes.

From 02:00 h., Complete services will be alternated (up to UMU) with partial services (type "shuttle" between the Plaza Circular and Nueva Condomina stops), with reinforced departure frequencies according to demand of approximately 15 minutes until 03 : 30 h.

From that time, departure frequencies of 30 minutes until 05:00 h., Where the frequency will be reduced to one hour, being the first service on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, at 07:00 h.

(departure from Nueva Condomina).

The special service will be maintained throughout the night, so that anyone who wishes can access and return both from the points where the tram arrives and from the concert venue.

The Shuttle to the UCAM does not modify its schedules, being the only valid those published for working days on the 10th, and those on Sundays and holidays for the day of the Pilgrimage, September 11th.

These schedules can be consulted both on the Murcia Tramway website and in the showcases of the section stops.

EVENT BONUS

In order to expedite the trips to the concert venue, encourage the use of public transport and improve the safety of the attendees during the event, a special sale of BONO MURCIA will be carried out for € 2 at the Plaza Circular stop. same day 10 starting at 7:00 p.m.

This bonus includes enough balance for the IDA and the RETURN, plus a rechargeable card valued at € 1 and valid for traveling both by tram and bus (urban and districts).

The BONO MURCIA € 2 is a 50% savings on the trip compared to the single ticket:

- Travel price with BONO MURCIA: 0.70 €.

- Travel price with SINGLE INTERURBAN TICKET: 1.40 €.

In addition to the sale of tickets and vouchers in the vending machines of the stops, the sale of BONO MURCIA is also planned for € 1 at the Nueva Condomina stop, to all those users who have moved to the concert venue by other means and want make the return by tram.

This bonus will be sold the night of September 10 to 11, at the Nueva Condomina stop, in order to speed up access to the exit trams.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia