In a plenary session, the Mijas Town Hall renewed on Monday 4th two agreements it has with the Metropolitan Transport Consortium of the Area of Malaga, which will be valid until the end of 2025 and which allows the circulation of up to five public bus lines in the municipality: the M-119 line, which operates between Calahonda and Fuengirola; the M-156, which links Las Lagunas with the shopping centre and Cerros del Águila; the M-222, which runs through El Barrio, Mijas, La Alquería and Fuengirola; the M-223, which goes to Entrerríos, and the M-114, which offers transportation to the University of Málaga. The fixed cost for the provision of the services is 1.4 million euros, VAT not included.
Regarding these lines, the councillor for Urban Mobility, Marco Cortés (PP), pointed out that some of them have improved their service in recent months, “such as the M-114, which has included an afternoon shift at the request of students, or the M-119, which now provides service every weekend of the year, not just during the summer period, thus improving the connection with the residential areas for the whole year, and, soon, we will also increase the frequency of the stops”. However, the PSOE councillor in Mijas, Natalia Martínez, said that these agreements are not adapted to the current needs of the municipality and do not add new bus lines. The existing ones, she recalled, were initiated by the previous government team, “and the Consortium costs the people of Mijas more than 1.5 million euros for 2024 and 2025, at least the service should be efficient, effective and, of course, cover the demand of all residents of Mijas”.
For his part, the spokesman for Ciudadanos Mijas, José Carlos Martín, argued that the abstention of his group in the vote on this point was due to the unfavourable report issued by the comptroller, “which joins the report of the secretary, also unfavourable, because it does not comply with the contract law and administrative rectitude does not appear here either”.
In response to all this, Cortés defended that the government team is putting a lot of effort into improving mobility in the municipality, in fact, “we have already published the proposal for a new urban transport ordinance, as well as having created a committee to work on the municipalisation of this service and an economic feasibility study has already been carried out so that this will soon be a reality”.
Both agreements went ahead with the government team voting in favour, the PSOE voting against and Ciudadanos abstaining.
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