The Puebla City Council will install security cameras and lighting in 500 bus stops in the city, which were recovered from litigation against the Clear Channel company, as revealed by the mayor of Puebla, José Chedraui Budib.
In an interview after the ceremony for the anniversary of the registration of Puebla’s Cultural Heritage in UNESCO, he said that they will intervene in the bus stops so that they are safe spaces and not just place advertising.
Chedraui Budib commented that the tender will be launched for the operation of these bus stops, where they will have to install security cameras and public lighting.
“We are going to dignify those bus stops that are totally forgotten (…) the people who win that concession will have the opportunity to renew them with cameras, with security, with lighting, so that they look good and not abandoned,” he declared.
He pointed out that they will review the tender, because the concession that the previous municipal administration had requested was for 3.6 and a half years, so they will evaluate the duration.
In this context, it is worth remembering that it was in October 2022 when the Puebla City Council approved issuing the advertising concession at bus stops for a period of 3.6 years.
The placement of advertising in this infrastructure of the municipality had been carried out by the Clear Channel company for more than 20 years.
It was in June 2023, when the company filed an appeal after the advertising concession at bus stops, banners and pedestrian bridges in the municipality of Puebla was suspended.
The Puebla Municipality’s Adjudications Committee stopped the call for the concession to place advertising at bus stops in the city and that was when the company sought to extend the duration of the 20-year contract; however, when the City Council refused to accept this request, it filed an injunction.
In recent days, it was announced that the Puebla City Council won the lawsuit and regained control of the infrastructure of 500 bus stops owned by the Clear Channel company.
Source: diariocambio
