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Platform Citizens for Public Transport has announced that it will present arguments to the tram project to expand the Carmen district understanding that it is not a priority for the municipality of Murcia for its high cost and feasibility study according cost between 45.6 and 58 million.
During a press conference held today at the Artillery Barracks, where the project is exposed to the extension of the tram, the representatives of the Platform have reiterated that there are other cheaper ways to connect the Barrio del Carmen and can be put into up immediately.
Thus, the groups that comprise the Platform remember that the current line of the tram costs each year to city coffers around € 11 million and is scheduled over 40 years exceed 360 million euros, unbearable expense, especially in these times of economic difficulties, which mortgage to the City.
Similarly, the platform reiterates that this action is not a priority for the municipality of Murcia, which also have serious social problems arising from the economic crisis, has significant deficiencies in the most urgent to solve public transport such as the lousy bus service have the districts.
The Platform calls on the People's Party to include the extension of the tram in its program for the municipal elections of May 2015 and claims that no steps to hire this work within this term does not commence.
Platform Citizens for Public Transportation consists of neighborhood organizations, consumers and users, trade and policies that have joined forces to work for a public and social, safe and sustainable for the municipality of Murcia transport.
Source: Plataforma Ciudadanos por el Transporte Público
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