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Madrid is spending 56 million for the transport Consortium
03/02/2011
February 3, 2011
The city of Madrid will bring this year 56.173.000 euros to the Regional Transport Consortium to finance current operations, as he has today approved the Board of Directors. The total budget of the Consortium in 2011 amounts to 224.692.000 euros, especially to cover the costs of maintenance of Metro and EMT. This amount is 201,96% greater than that provided in 2003, which was 74.410.164 euros.
The most important actions of the Regional Consortium of transport in 2011 are as follows:
- Integral of the collective public transport, the introduction of a single technology platform that is integrated with the specific of each mode of transport systems and is the basis of the integrated Center of the collective public transport centre. After the heat exchangers were integrated into this Centre more than 36 kilometers of light metros and tramways built between 2003 and 2007. The rest of public transport, i.e., underground and bus network-wide will be incorporated before the end of 2011.
- Metro plan of improvement. Started last term, the Plan of improvement of subway renews much of the old network and improved conditions of safety, accessibility and quality, as well as the commissioning of new trains.
- Heat exchangers for transport. This section includes the construction of a building in surface at the interchange of plaza de Castilla to the lines of the TMS, the remodeling of the exchanger of avenida de América, and feasibility studies of heat exchangers of Legazpi and Conde de Casal.
- New technologies. In 2011 continues the implementation of projects aimed at implementing new technologies in the transport, such as the intelligent transport Billética (BIT), the new cards without contacts and the development of pilot projects on mobile phones as media of titles of transport.
