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Formentera asks the General Direction of Transport for effective equality across the Balearics

transport3The Formentera Island Council's councilor of Tourism, Transport and Trade, Alejandra Ferrer, set the year in motion reiterating a request for technological improvements to public transport in Formentera before the Govern Balear's Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Territory and that ministry's councilor Gabriel Company.

Given developments on the island of Menorca, by which an accord for technological improvements to the public transport system was signed and more than 800,000€ in funding earmarked, the Council requested that the same accord be signed with Formentera, a request that was accepted by the Balearic Ministry of the Environment.

Formentera has reiterated on various occasions the Govern's obligation to foment an equality of funding for public transport in the entire autonomous community: first in person, at a meeting with Juan Salvador Iriarte, general director of Transport, and also in numerous letters addressed to the General Direction of Transport, the last of which were remitted 11 April and 9 August.
In view of the fact that the Govern's response came in September of last year, from this side it was deemed appropriate to reinitiate contact with the autonomous authority in order to get action under way in the imminent signing of the transport accord.

Practical application of the accord would be administered by the Consorci de Transports de Mallorca (CTM, for Mallorca Transport Consortium). It would include the provision of technology, education equipment necessary to fully computerising the public transport service in Formentera.

Once the accord has been signed, the CTM would be the body responsible for implementing systems of management and control, ensuring a single, common information service as well as automated ticket vending machines. These improvements would help standardise interurban transport through the application of a single system of rates, increasing convenience for users. They would also be instrumental in improving control of public transport, giving the possibility to obtain real-time information about numbers of passengers, common passenger routes, etc.