Vélez Málaga and Torre del Mar
 
The first two tram cars that will link Vélez Málaga with Torre del Mar will arrive in the municipality throughout the month of November, and are expected to be operative at the end of the year or the beginning of 2006.

The tram line, which will go from the Jurado Lorca de Vélez Park to the Church of San Andrés in Torre del Mar, a distance of 4.6 kilometres, is costing 18 million euros to build, and is being financed entirely by European Union funds. It is being built by the ACS/Vías companies, and will be managed by GIASA public company, belonging to the Delegation of Public Works in the Junta de Andalucía.

The CAF tram is an autonomous, two-directional, two-car system, articulated in five modules with a 100 by 100 lower floor, more than 31 metres long, 2.6 metres wide and 3.3 metres high, capable of a maximum operational speed of 70 kilometres an hour.

One area of the cars has been modified for use by the disabled, in such a way that they can use each of the four entrances easily. Total capacity, counting four passengers for each square metre of space available, will be for 54 seated passengers, with space for another 148 standing passengers. The basic price of a ticket on the CAF will be 1.42 euros, although the final ticket price will be about a euro, given the availability of bonuses.

The ticket for public urban transport for Vélez-Málaga passengers, which includes urban bus travel as well as the tram, will cost an average of 75 centimes for each trip. There will be a total of four bonuses available, including a monthly bonus, a bonus for pensioners and a bonus for young people.

Tenders for the second phase of the line will be put out at the beginning of 2006. The second line will run through Calle Magallanes, to link up with the present ring road and continue parallel to the María Zambrano Park to the future municipal station in the old train station. The budget for the second phase is 8,864,632 euros.