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The Governing Board has approved this morning the final administrative step of the proposed installation of tram line 1: the final award of the construction, maintenance and operation of the Joint Venture Company formed by FCC and Comsa.

In this way the work will begin next June.

This is the biggest investment in public works undertaken in the history of the town, amounting to 264 million euros.

Another of the most important project that will create about 1,800 direct and indirect jobs during the construction phase and 120 in the operational phase.

This means that the rail construction will create the same job that projects the Local Investment Fund of the Central Government, with the difference that the tram works will be extended for a year and a half while jobs created by the Investment Fund projects Local only last eight months.

During the 40-year concession is expected to use the tram 513 million users, which means that during the first year will travel on the tram 5.5 million people.

This figure will increase as time goes on.

According to forecasts, the tram will be operational in late 2010, after six months had passed the test.

In total, built 18 kilometers of tram route, which will be structured in three tranches in the form of V.

The first to join the Circular Plaza Nueva Condomina Stadium, the second will do with the University of Murcia and the third is a shuttle that connects the Terra Natura Murcia stop with the Catholic University.

Of these 18 miles, three correspond to the ring surrounds the University of Murcia and more than 3.5 to the shuttle to the Catholic University.

Note also that the length of 0.970 kilometers between Juan Carlos I stop closest to the Plaza Circular and the Fleet Avenue will eliminate the overhead.

As for the frequency step has been determined that in the tram line in V will every eight minutes during peak hours and every twelve-peak while the shuttle to the UCAM is between 15 and 20 minutes.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia