4 Jul. () –
The ‘#TravelMoreByBus’ alliance has denounced the lack of hundreds of direct bus routes between cities, such as Valencia-Toledo, Malaga-Badajoz, Oviedo-Pamplona or Segovia-Santander, among others.
The initiative, formed by companies, social and youth entities and academies, has created a video map with the main non-existent routes, with the aim of making visible that the current system “no longer adapts to the current mobility needs of the population.”
“The lack of modernisation of the system means that dozens of cities remain disconnected by bus, that our country does not meet the competition standards dictated by the CNMC, that a ticket in Spain costs twice as much as in France or Italy and that existing routes have lost 15 million passengers between 2009 and 2019, weakening a sector of more than 95,000 workers,” he explains.
The alliance therefore proposes that, within the framework of the Government’s processing of the Sustainable Mobility Law, steps be taken to open up the busiest routes to competition, that requests for cabotage (picking up and dropping off passengers at intermediate stops) from international operators be approved, that buses that provide discretionary services be allowed to sell surplus seats, and that connections that are not being provided be operated freely.
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