Children will soon start their new school year, but as for the stops where they will have to wait for the bus in the mornings, everything will foreseeably stay the same for another year or get worse.
Their condition is dreadful for a tourist municipality like Manilva, but the lack of even minimal maintenance is worse still: rusty pieces and screws, missing glass panels, lack of paint and cleaning, and at several stops no shelters at all. In short, obvious neglect that has been building up for years.
Even in all this time, we have seen some users, desperate in the face of the passivity of those responsible for meeting these basic needs, spend their own time and money building benches and putting out plastic chairs to make the wait more comfortable. However, all these attempts have been removed by the roads authority (Carreteras) because they were not approved and did not comply with current regulations.
Replacing the shelters seems to be the responsibility of the Regional Ministry of Development, Infrastructure and Spatial Planning of the Junta de Andalucía, but their installation and maintenance fall to the town halls, as does pressing the ministry for their replacement if necessary.
On 10 January, the ministry announced the installation of 68 new shelters across Andalusia, which were allocated on the basis of requests made by the town halls themselves, but Manilva was left out of the batch.
Once again, we hope that this situation will be reversed and that the necessary measures will be taken to improve this service, which is so important for residents. Public transport should be a firm commitment to protecting the environment and the quality of life of its users.
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