The Mobility Council supports the agreement to improve the urban bus service

The document includes the bonus to four population groups with the Citizen Card

A study will determine the future needs of public transport

The Mobility Council has approved today the draft agreement between Benidorm City Council and the concessionaire of the urban bus, Llorente Bus, aimed at "improving public transport service and promoting its use among citizens with the Citizen Card and subsidies, "explained the councilman of the area, José Ramón González de Zárate.

The body - in which are represented the groups of the corporation, municipal technicians and representatives of business, social and neighborhood entities - has decided to give a period of 20 days to present arguments to the draft that improve the text before the same takes To full

De Zárate said that the document includes the "additional advantages", which, in the form of additional subsidies and / or discounts, already receive four collective populations: the enumerated over 65, the young people under 31 years of age, people with a Disability equal to or greater than 40%, and users of the Pepa Esperanza municipal center. To these students are added to make use of school transport, whose conditions are fixed in another agreement, and leaves the door open to implant new subsidies in the future.

In principle, and according to the councilman, everything indicates that within the period of allegations Benidorm Disabled Persons Association (Asmibe) will propose to reduce from 40% to 33% the percentage of disability that must be credited users to enjoy the subsidized transport .

On the other hand, the Mobility Council has agreed to carry out a study on "the public transport we want in Benidorm for the future", which includes the improvement of stops and frequencies, more and better signs or works To be made so that urban buses can reach streets that they can not circulate today.

Finally, the body has supported the request to convene a meeting of the Regional Commission on Citizen Security and Trafficking to obtain the opinion of municipalities on the future of public transport district.

'App' in testing phase

The councilor for Mobility has announced that the app is running in the testing phase for the Android system the 'app' of the urban bus in Benidorm, which tells of the times and times of passage of vehicles in different lines. The name of the app is Llorente Bus