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The socialists describe as "Third World" the situation in which is the train service of Cercanías that covers the commuter line that runs through our municipality.

Situation that has led them to record recent initiatives in the Regional Assembly and announce that they will raise a motion to the next full Lorca with which they will claim a calendar of actions for the electrification and modernization of the Mucia-Lorca-Aguilas line

The councilor of the Municipal Socialist Group, David Romera has denounced the "third world situation" in which is the train service of Cercanías that covers the Murcia-Lorca-Aguilas line, managed by ADIF.

Romera affirms that "it is continuous the arrival to its municipal group of complaints of users that use the trains of the service of Cercanías that communicate our city with Eagles, the regional capital and intermediate localities, fed up with the continuous annoyances and setbacks that they suffer before a service Which presents numerous shortcomings in terms of punctuality, comfort and quality. "

Such complaints have been referred especially in recent months to the "continuous delays that the trains suffer in the arrival and departure times from the Lorca stations as a consequence of the restructuring of schedules that ADIF carried out on the Murcia-Lorca-Aguilas line.

According to the Socialist Edil, such delays, especially in trains with high demand used by workers and students like the one that leaves Lorca at 7:42 in the morning or the one that departs from Murcia at 19:45, "accumulate delays up to 10 and 15 minutes ".

In this way, the traditional travel time of 55 minutes between Lorca and Murcia, extends to 65 or 70 minutes, "which generates mismatches between users who arrive late to class, to the consultation or to work, which clearly It reduces competitiveness compared to other transport systems ".

ADIF has also reduced the length of the compositions of the trains of greater use, reason why "the degree of saturation is very high and it is difficult to find a free seat in the trains of rush hour".

Users' complaints also have to do with the rolling stock, since the trains used on the line, he says, "are obsolete", as it remembers that it is still the "MAN cars that were put into service for the first time Time in Lorca in April 1983, when for decades these trains were discarded in other Spanish regions and replaced by convoys of last generation.

Also, notes Romera, "inside the trains there is a lack of cleanliness, the noise of the engines becomes deafening in some wagons and there is no public address service, so many users are disoriented at night because they do not know what The train station is located, "while" the situation in San Diego station, which does not have staff to issue the tickets, should be resolved "and take into account" the demands of the students of the University Campus of Lorca who go through to create a special bonus of 20 trips to spend in three months and improve the connection with Cartagena. "

Faced with this unfortunate situation, David Romera denounces "the total abandonment we have been subjected since Mariano Rajoy arrived in La Moncloa in 2011 that has marginalized Lorca with zero investments to improve the quality of the Cercanías service, which is used every day For several thousand people. "

For all this, and in addition to requesting it a few months ago through the Regional Representative in the Assembly, Isabel Casalduero, Lorca socialists will reinforce their work for the improvement of the Cercanías service through a motion to be presented in the next plenary, and With which they will demand to the mayor of Lorca, D. Francisco Jódar, that "urges to the Government of the Autonomous Community and to the Government of Spain to be elaborated of immediate form a calendar of actions to proceed to the integral modernization of the line of Cercanías Which runs through our municipality to improve the unfortunate conditions in which this service is rendered obsolete and non-competitive, and becomes a basic infrastructure for the economic and social development of Lorca. "

For the socialist councilor, such actions, in order of priority, should be the following:

1.) Renewal of tracks and total electrification of the Murcia-Lorca-Aguilas line.

2.) Change of vehicles to other last generation electric.

3.) Restructuring of the Cercanías service in terms of schedules, frequencies, etc.

Adapting to the real needs of the population.

4.) Creation of new services of Regional Trains between Lorca and Cartagena by Murcia, as well as the direct connection between Lorca and Alicante without making transshipment in Murcia;

Establish a new daily Talgo service between Lorca and Madrid maintaining its current extension to Eagles.

5.) Opening of the connection with Andalusia through the provinces of Almería and Granada.

Source: PSOE Lorca