The town's mayor, Jaume Riba Bayo, presented the demand last week, as part of a resolution proposal to the Parliament of Catalonia, jointly promoted with deputy Montse Ortiz. The aim is to achieve a comprehensive improvement of the service connecting La Torre de Claramunt with Igualada and Capellades.
The requests focus particularly on line T1, connecting to Igualada, where more return options are requested for midday and afternoon for students attending the University Campus and vocational training centers, as well as better connections to Igualada Hospital and the bus station.
Regarding line T2, which connects to Capellades, it is considered necessary to strengthen the connection and improve the coordination of bus schedules with Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC) trains towards Igualada and Barcelona, including weekends and holidays.
The Town Hall has already submitted a specific proposal for new schedules and improvements to the concessionary company and now seeks the involvement of the Generalitat to implement these changes. Jaume Riba Bayo highlighted that 'La Torre de Claramunt has grown and residents' needs have also changed. We cannot continue with a bus service that practically meets the needs of twenty years ago. Public services must evolve at the same pace as municipalities'.
The Town Hall will continue working to make the improvement of public transport a reality and to ensure that living in a municipality without its own train station does not mean having fewer opportunities to study, work, or access public services.
