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Murcia on Thursday reach the first tram.
It will be around 10 am when the truck carrying it reach the Avenue located between the street and Avenue Julio Cortazar Juan de Borbón.
The convoy started its journey this morning, at 6 pm in Madrid.
The truck, gondola and special dimensions, traveling at a speed of 40 miles per hour and is escorted by a pilot vehicle and shall be assisted by private security.
In total there will be transported from Madrid nine trams (one each week) as the concession company already has two cars at Murcia.
Citadis model 302, Alstom has six gates, four doubles, 54 seats and a capacity for 186 passengers.
This model is characterized inter alia by the "ground floor", which is the absence of roads both inside and access to vehicles, facilitating the movement of disabled and pushchairs.
The units will be equipped with CCTV to control security inside the cars, PA systems and indicators within the target.
For the construction of these trams were used reusable materials such as steel, aluminum and copper.
This is the same model of tram and circulating in cities like Paris, Barcelona, Parla, Madrid, Tenerife, Dublin, Montpellier, Lyon, Orleans, Athens and Mulhouse.
According to estimates, before Christmas will start the test period on Line 1, which is the implementation of the whole operation without passengers.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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