The pilot is the result of proposals by PCP and Livre, approved in a city council meeting, and is based on the already existing Carris Neighborhood Rails. It is, above all, a project to promote public transportation.
It is released this Monday, October 31st, the pilot project of school transport that the Lisbon City Hall and Carris have been preparing in recent months. Entitled Yellowis an initiative to promote public transportation to school, "in order to create more sustainable habits in the new generations and reverse the trend of individual transport use"says the municipality in a communiqué.
Amarelo is not a new transport service; instead, it builds on Carris' existing offer, namely its Neighborhood Carriers. The idea is make known the bus lines that serve the schools at school entry times and guarantee an on-board monitor service in some of these careers.
The pilot project starts first in EB 1 Paulino Montezin the parish of Olivais, and will extend, as planned, to another school in Lumiar, the EB 2,3 of Telheirasand the other one in Beato, at EB 2,3 Luís António Verney. However, in this pilot are already confirmed two hands almost full of schools in the Benfica parish - namely: the schools Arquitecto Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles, Jorge Barradas, José Gomes Ferreira, Parque Silva Porto, Professor José Salvado Sampaio and Pedro de Santarém; and the kindergartens nº 1 and nº 2 of Benfica.
In each of these schools, the following will be identified lines and schedules of the Carris network buses that serve these schools or kindergartensSome routes will be chosen, where children can travel accompanied by monitors from the Parish Council on their way to school. In the case of EB 1 Paulino Montez, the Bairro (neighborhood) route has already been selected. 29B Carris, but the municipality and the municipal transport company recommend other alternatives for the school: lines 722, 759 and 783.
Parents who want their children to be accompanied to school should register them in the Yellow through this formThey should indicate the bus stop where the student will take the bus, and the preferred time of day. Then, the student will only have to be at the bus stop when the bus passes. After that moment he/she will be delivered to the responsible monitor who will take him/her to school on the Yellow.
There is one important requirement: the child must have a valid Navegante card with a passwhich you must pass at the bus entrance every time you use the service. Lisbon City Hall provides Free Navigator Cards to all students attending the 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycles of basic education in a city school, public or private; until the student reaches 13 years of age, he has unlimited access to all public transport in the entire Lisbon Metropolitan Area with the Navegante 12 pass; after that age, he can enjoy a discount of 25% on a Navegante pass, for students who are not residents in Lisbon, or Join the free public transportation in Lisbonif they are tax resident in the municipality.
The Yellow Pilot Project "aims to improve the mobility of the city, give students more autonomy, more time for parents, and more safe routes to school"says the Lisbon City Hall. This project results from a proposal presented by the PCP councilmen to the city council in February, and it was unanimously accepted. In April, the Free Party also took to a town hall meeting a proposal for school transportation, similar to that of the Communists, and which proposed the creation of a service called The Little Yellow Ones.
