The Algarve Intermunicipal Community (AMAL) will launch in October an international public tender to create an integrated road public transport network in the region.
According to Jorge Botelho, president of the association of municipalities, this tender will have to be awarded by the end of 2019 and the goal is to have “a network of road public transport (buses), which will coordinate with city public transport and with the differentiated means of transport for the parishes».
In statements to the Sul Informação, Jorge Botelho explained that AMAL wants to be «an agent in a reality that exists and that is an incipient road public transport system, making the system work, articulate and have an integrated ticket and ticket offices “as it should be”».
Classifying the area of transport as a sector in which the municipalities are «in the heart of their bones», the mayor considers that «nowadays, those who do not have a car have many difficulties in mobility in the Algarve. We have Eva, we have the Blue Fleet, but the system is inefficient».
Until December 2019, the deadline for granting the international public tender, these two transport companies will continue to operate. «I have already provisionally approved the current dealerships, Eva and Frota Azul, to continue working». However, after the tender, «the Transport Authority will start to award definitive titles for the next five years».
This process started in 2016, whichhen AMAL received “the portfolio” of transport in the region, and the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan of the Algarve (PAMUS) was launched, the first phase of which consisted of mapping and evaluating transport in the region.
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