The most important days of the Christmas holidays are coming and with them, the school holidays and those of many citizens, who take advantage of these days to move around the city more, enjoy the cultural and leisure programming of these dates and go shopping. This is why the Seville City Council and the Andalusian Government are returning for another year strengthen their respective bus and metro services, in order to adapt them to the greater influx what is expected these days. Of course, those who opt for public transport will have to be attentive to the reduction in timetables which will occur on specific days.
Concerning urban buses, Tussam has strengthened its service, particularly on weekends. On Friday, mainly in the afternoon, between 28 and 45 additional buses will run; On Saturday, the reinforcement will be 23 vehicles in the morning and 52 in the afternoon, which translates into 60,000 additional places than a normal Saturday; and on Sundays and public holidays, there will be 25 additional buses in the morning and 38 in the afternoon, or 45,000 additional seats.
The radial lines are those which benefit the most from this reinforcement, with specific days and times where the offer is even doubled. In this sense, lines like Lines 12, 13, 27 and 32 will operate on weekends as well as during the week, with crossing frequencies of between 5 and 7 minutes.; 3, 5 and 6 are also improved; while the tram now runs with five trains per day until 2 a.m.
Yes, some time adjustments will take place on the most important dates. In this sense, On December 24 and 31, daytime service will end around 10 p.m. (last departures from the peak at 9:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.); although night lines start at 10:00 p.m. from Prado de San Sebastián to end at 2:00 a.m. on the aforementioned days and at 5:00 a.m. on the 31st. On Christmas and New Years the service will start at 9:00 a.m.
Subway on New Year’s Eve
For its part, the Directorate of Development, Territorial Articulation and Housing of the Junta expands its offer in the metro by 72% in the most popular time slots on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidayswith an increase in double trains in the afternoons of the aforementioned days. In addition, due to the school break, service will be reorganized during the week to move as many trains as possible to the evening schedule.
In order to facilitate family conciliation for workers, The last trains will leave the main stations on the 24th at 9:12 p.m.he should therefore pass through Nervión at 9:30 p.m. Already on Christmas Day, the service will resume at 7:30 a.m. and end at 11:00 p.m.
The reinforcement will, however, be notable on New Year’s Eve, when the last trains are also expected to pass through Nervión at 9:30 p.m. Although on this day, with a particular movement during the night, The service will resume at 1:00 a.m. on the first day and operate without interruption until 11:00 p.m. of this first day of the year. A measure, recalls the department led by Rocío Díaz, which was adopted in 2019 and which was “very well received” by users.
The metro will arrive the maximum of its offer on January 5 to be of service to the thousands of people who travel to enjoy the Three Kings Parade. On that day, the peri-urban will operate until 2:00 a.m.
The Régie recommends that users recharge their transport tickets in advance in order to streamline passenger traffic in stations. Especially since, for some time, expectations have been exceeded in terms of the number of users, which causes, especially on weekends and on special occasions, numerous queues and longer waits than usual at stations. For this reason, the Régie has already negotiated with the metro concessionaire the extension of the line 1 fleet with five additional trainswhose construction has just been awarded, and whose commissioning is expected in 2028.
They are also changing their schedules, including the end and start of service on key dates, Consortium metropolitan buseswhich can be viewed in detail on their website.
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