COVID-19 European Union
Transport/ Mobility
COVID TRANSPORT ACTION PLANS:
Bus companies help transport farm workers and farm businesses to respect social distancing. La Verdad.es
“More than 200 buses per day provide their services to transport agricultural company workers. The Regional Ministry of Development coordinates transport and guarantees social distancing in this type of labour movement. The Regional Ministry of Development and Infrastructure promotes and coordinates the provision of between 200 and 225 buses daily to transport agricultural company workers. This measure aims to ensure the safe transport of workers from the countryside to the agricultural production centres and it also pursues that transport companies have their vehicles operational.
The regional Government is promoting this measure because it considers essential, according to the Regional Minister José Ramón Díez de Revenga, “to guarantee the supply of fresh products to the population in a pandemic such as the coronavirus one, while at the same time it is necessary to find alternatives to cushion the crisis of the companies caused by the limitation of activities and mobility of citizens during the state of alarm.”
“We thus provide a new source of income for transport companies, which are about 50,” explained the Regional Minister, and stressed that this type of transport “ensures the safety and health of workers in the agricultural sector.”
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