Metro and Tram Timetables for Fallas 2010

Tony

Administrator
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GV has already published schedule for fallas special tram and metro services. The seating capacity in Fallas increases by having more units and five new cars mascletades occasion of increasing the frequency of convoys will also offer more vehicles on the occasion of the castles of fires and the Offering of Flowers The trains and trams will travel on the biggest days 253,753 km, equivalent to six times round the world.

Railways of the Generalitat Valenciana (FGV)-Metrovalencia has begun and the special services provided in connection with the celebration of Fallas 2010, which will continue until early March 20. The offer provided by FGV will facilitate movement between different parts of the city that connect the network and the participation of citizens in the various events scheduled for this day.

The address is scheduled to FGV, since the night of March 15th to early 20th of that month, tram and metro services running without interruption 24 hours a day. Trains provided will offer an additional service that ranges from zero hours until five-thirty in the morning, a period during which no service as usual.

[IMGL]http://www.ciberfallas.com/especiales10/metro-tranvia.jpg[/IMGL]The big news this year is the significant increase of capacity offered in special services, since, for the first time, has units with five cars that go 60 to 75 meters and increasing its capacity from 600 to 750 squares, which will certainly help alleviate overcrowding on the platforms.

Similarly with regard to the Fallas 2009, have been incorporated twelve new units to replace the 4300 series of 24 UTA, which will result, and a greater capacity because the former have double places the latter in an improvement in passenger comfort.

With these measures the overall ability Metrovalencia bid in the main eleven days of Fallas (6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 March) will rise from 7 million seats in 2009 to 7,900,000. Also, at a particular time of peak, on the whole network can be 72 meters and trams simultaneously carrying 48,000 passengers compared to 40,000 last year.

The 16,606 meters and trams that carry out regular and special services for those eleven dates will travel 253,753 miles, the equivalent of six times round the world.

The managing director of the Railways of the Generalitat Valenciana, Marisa Gracia, has emphasized in the presentation of special services, the increased capacity on the trains for these parties of the Fallas, which hopes "that the device is programmed a success and contribute to improved public transport service.

Grace, who has assured that provides more than two million travelers Fallas week, explained that the cost of special services amounting to 714,000 euros, while the additional revenue will reach 500,000.

Mascletades, firework displays and Offering
In addition to the night service, during the Fallas festival will offer additional services in virtually all of the normal working day to facilitate travel in the hours that are planned mascletades, firework displays and traditional floral offering to the Virgin of Homeless 17 and 18 March and the 19th, San Jose, holiday in the Community.

On the occasion of mascletades scheduled at the Plaza del Ayuntamiento de Valencia, has provided additional services Metrovalencia metro and tram since 28 February, when it was held Crida for the next weekend and until the Fallas completion of service increased from 12 hours to 15 hours, with an average pass rate for about four minutes at the stations is concentrated in a greater number of passengers as Xàtiva, Colon, Plaza of Spain and Alameda.

At night, coinciding with firework displays, have also provided additional services. The special trains planned in addition to circulating as usual, so that from approximately 2215 hours this service will be operational until beyond two in the morning when his tour ends the last train. The frequency of passage for these services in the most central stations of the city of Valencia has set four to eight minutes.

For safety reasons and according to the instructions of Civil Protection and the Local Police of Valencia, Alameda station will be closed to the public an hour before the start of the firework displays (one and a half on the day of the Nit del Foc), and remain without service until after the conclusion thereof. Travelers wishing to travel to the Alameda in that time slot, may alight at stations Facultats immediate or Columbus.

The celebration of the Offering to the Virgin and the other activities planned during Fallas favors that 17 and 18 March reinforcing the facilities provided between 11 and 22.30 with the frequencies passing through downtown aforementioned four or five minutes, as lines 3 and 5 or 1, 4 and 6, respectively.

Timetables for these services are available to users in Metrovalencia stations and facilities in the customer service phone 900 46 10 46, in the 40,000 leaflets have been published with them and on the web www.metrovalencia. is

Increase staff and sustainability
On the increase of personnel during special services Fallas Metrovalencia increased by over 50 per cent its staff, going from the usual 850 people working in a normal day at 1289 during a major holiday day josefinas. Highlights the increased security, which is reflected in a 132 per cent.

On the other hand, the forecast of passengers on the main days of the Fallas 2010 is estimated at more than two million passengers, representing 400,000 displaced prevent private vehicles and emission of 750 tons of CO2 into atmosphere. Also, public transport in savings to drivers of 300,000 euros on fuel.

To make travel more comfortably in Metrovalencia, and taking into account that will be more than 400 streets closed off to traffic, the Railways of the Generalitat Valenciana offers its users 650 free parking spaces in eleven surface stations on Line 1 which will enable more direct access and ordered the city of Valencia.

They are found in Llíria stations (41), La Pobla de Vallbona (40), L'Eliana (39), Massarrojos (62), Rocafort (54), Junction (40), Seminari - CEU (48), Source the Pitcher (52), Bétera (60), Font Ali (42) and Valencia Sud (170). In addition, there are the 50 seats put into service by the City Council Paiporta.

Finally, it is noteworthy that FGV has conducted a poster competition for special services through its Fallas Metrovalencia Chair of Fine Arts, which has been awarded Bataller Nuria Prat, with an original design that combines the human essence the party, the Fallas, the Transit rail, subway.

Bron: http://www.ciberfallas.com/especiales10/horarios-metro-2010.php
 
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