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Santander’s Councillor for the Environment and Sustainable Mobility, Jose Ignacio Quirós, said last week that the vehicles are expected to enter service early next year.
The city is also taking steps to acquire articulated vehicles to coincide with the completion of its Metro-TUS infrastructure project.
The Metro-TUS project involves significantly re-ordering the current bus lines in the city, and includes the creation of a central bus corridor running through the city. High-frequency bus lines from the city outskirts would take travellers to major interchanges at each end of the central corridor.
The council is also expecting to soon conclude a joint study with the University of Cantabria and TUS on the downsizing of other bus lines once the Metro-TUS is fully put into service. Work on building new garages and bases for municipal transport vehicles is estimated to begin in the summer.
