Basauri Demands Sarratu Station Be Recognized as Intermodal Hub in New Bizkaibus Plan

The City Council submits three objections to the draft proposal for the provincial bus service to improve connections with the metro and Galdakao hospital.

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The Basauri City Council has filed three objections to the draft proposal for the new Bizkaibus service, arguing it inadequately integrates the town's urban and mobility transformation.

The Basauri City Council has filed three objections to the draft proposal for the new Bizkaibus service, arguing it inadequately integrates the town's urban and mobility transformation. According to the council, the new design fails to ensure residents have a "truly intermodal transport system" that allows for convenient and efficient connections with the metro network and points of interest such as the Galdakao-Usansolo hospital.
The document, which also incorporates proposals from EH Bildu, focuses on the future Sarratu metro station. This infrastructure will make the area a key mobility hub in Bizkaia, requiring "high-frequency and high-capacity services," according to the Basauri Council. Therefore, it insists that the Bizkaibus service, currently being reorganized, must "anticipate" future demand. It requests that the draft proposal explicitly include "effective intermodality" at Sarratu, allowing various operators to "stop at this strategic hub," potentially enabling lines currently ending in Bilbao to be rerouted to Basauri.
Furthermore, the council demands that the new urban developments planned in Azbarren, La Basconia, and San Miguel be considered, as they anticipate population growth in the coming years. The second objection focuses on improving the connection between the residential area of San Miguel and the metro stops in the town center. The Council deems current schedules "insufficient" and requests an increase in frequencies along the San Miguel-Ayuntamiento-Kalero-Sarratu axis, proposing at least the maintenance of current frequencies and a progressive evolution towards 15 or 20-minute headways with a homogeneous cadence.
Finally, the third objection calls for enhancing early morning connections between San Miguel and the metropolitan line. The new Bizkaibus service should provide connections between this population center and an accessible Metro station in Basauri "during the earliest hours of the day," before 05:45 AM.