With the implementation of the Strategic Public Transport System (SETP), with 130 Scania/Marcopolo CNG buses, the Valledupar Integrated Transport System (SIVA) becomes an entity that collaborates in the commitment of the Department of Cesar to be an energy power in Colombia. With these buses, Valledupar also joins the other four capitals in the country that already use natural gas in their vehicles: Cartagena, Bogotá, Cali, Medellín.
This was ratified by different social, business, political and national government officials, in the forum developed by the Colombian Natural Gas Association (Naturgas) at the Universidad del Área Andina.
“The decision that Valledupar made to implement a system with natural gas buses is an example of leading sustainable mobility, the true energy transition and the decarbonization of the sector in Colombia. What was led before by the great capitals of the country such as Bogotá, Medellín, Cali and Cartagena is also now done by Valledupar,” said the President of Naturgas Luz Stella Murgas.
For her part, Sandra Ángel Almario, Coordinator of the Sustainable Urban Mobility Unit of the Ministry of Transport, assured that Valledupar has been an example for the entire country because, in addition to being the first intermediate city to start the SETP, it has also “been the only city in the country that has taken advantage of the resources of the co-financing agreement to acquire the bus fleet.”
Meanwhile, the Governor of Cesar Andrés Meza specified that his government has contributed resources to SIVA to guarantee the functioning of this system, which aims at the continuity of the diversification of the economy in Cesar, through its capital that projects “a hopeful future.”
Mayor Mello Castro González highlighted that the public transport system operates with an environmentally friendly fuel. “We have consolidated the SETP. Many years passed before the city had a fleet of 130 modern buses, with air conditioning and platforms for people with disabilities. But today we are a model in the country, a sustainable system that thinks about the health of the community,” he indicated.
Source: SIVA
