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A Third World situation that presents the public transport in Lorca years, 5 months unpaid adds to the drivers, who were owed ​​an average of 18,000 per month

The Municipal Group Socialist councilor, David Romera has returned to denounce the "deplorable situation in which it is located, as Lorca all know, public transport in our municipality."

David Romera said that "the diagnosis can not be more unfavorable: old, polluting, noisy, no air conditioning and even some lack the ramp for disabled vehicles; timeouts users who despair; there are no fixed timetables in Over the buses, lack of information at stops;; lack of shelters in many of those stops "changes in the routes of the lines are deleted services.

In short, "a service that is neither attractive nor desirable" to be used by Lorca, which causes an "already familiar sight on the city: find the crowded streets of vehicles and city buses completely empty."

In fact, says the mayor, "the number of travelers in recent years has been halved, currently hovering around 400,000 annually."

The councilman said that "in Lorca, unlike other cities of similar population," nor has there been, nor is there, awareness of how beneficial it is to use urban public transportation.

"From that" urban transport flag "of 2001 when he left the service to competition, have gone to poor urban transport is no longer an alternative to the private car."

In addition to providing poor service, David Romera has reported that the problem of urban public transport workers in Lorca (drivers) have five months without pay, which has become an "untenable situation for themselves and their families" .

The PSOE Councillor reported that the average amount they are owed to these workers is 18,000 euros per month, adding that "these workers perform their job as best they can, given the precarious material available You would like to have. new buses and provide better service. "

David Romera blames this situation is due to two clear liable: the council, which has made dereliction of duties, because "it has not exercised control work on operating the service and has not complied with its obligations at the time ( specifications) with the winning "company;

as the same concessionaire, which "has not made every effort to modernize the service and increase the number of travelers do so profitable."

The concession with the current contractor ends in March next year, so have six months service delivery

In this situation, from the Municipal Socialist Group demanded the "urgent resolution" of the problem of workers who perform their duties in the service of the urban public transport, to pay them what they are owed and to improve as far as possible the service, whose deficiencies are being sustained for years by Lorca.

In this sense, from the demand that the PSOE councilor responsible for transport, Mr Juan Miguel Bayonas, lead a trilateral meeting to resolve these two issues among council, concession and company workers.

Also, to maintain the jobs of current workers, since the PSOE urge that a clause in the enterprise integrating these workers in the new concession is reward be included in the new specification.

Finally, the socialist mayor has shown total availability of the Municipal Group Socialist facing assist in the resolution of these issues, reaching out to Mr. Bayonas.

Source: PSOE Lorca