Seville, (EFE).- More than a hundred inland municipalities will have bus routes this summer to get to the beach thanks to the Junta program that starts this Saturday in the provinces of Almería, Cádiz, Granada, Huelva and Málaga .
The Summer Coastal Transport Program, organized by the Ministry of Development, Articulation of the Territory and Housing, has activated 26 routes this weekend, six more than in the previous edition, distributed in Almería, Cádiz, Granada, Huelva and Málaga.
The main objective of the initiative is to guarantee a connection with public transport that allows enjoying the coastal environment in a comfortable and affordable way, beyond the offer and reinforcement already offered by the Metropolitan Transport Consortiums.
The Board thus seeks to avoid the isolation of some small municipalities far from the coast, in addition to promoting the use of public transport instead of dependence on private cars.
alternative to the car
The Minister of Development, Articulation of the Territory and Housing, Rocío Díaz, has stated that this offer for the summer months, which began in 2019, has become an alternative to the car to enjoy the beach.
“An option, moreover, in which we all win, because it is not only more comfortable for the user, but also less polluting,” Díaz specified.
Almería has four routes, two of them with daily service, and the others only active on weekends and holidays, while Cádiz offers three routes that operate on Fridays and a fourth from the Alcornocales Natural Park on Saturdays.
The province of Granada has activated five routes for weekends and holidays in the Alpujarra, the North zone and the interior of the Coast with the beach and which are added to the three in Huelva, one more than last year, and activates the Saturdays and Sundays.
Lastly, the province of Malaga has increased the available transport routes to the coast from four to ten in this fifth edition of the plan, five to Torre del Mar, and the rest to Torremolinos and Marbella. EFE