Badalona City Council, Endesa and Tusgsal are promoting sustainable public transport during the 2023 basketball Copa del Rey in Badalona

From left to right: Vladimir Brodziansky, Joventut player; José Antonio Parra, deputy director general of Tusgsal; Anna Maria Lara, Councilor for Culture and Mobility of the Badalona City Council; Juan Antonio Morales, president of Joventut Badalona; Rubén Guijarro, mayor of Badalona; Enric Brazis, Head of Institutional Relations at Endesa in Catalonia; José Miguel Calleja, general director of acb, and Pep Busquets, Joventut player.
From left to right: Vladimir Brodziansky, Joventut player; José Antonio Parra, deputy director general of Tusgsal; Anna Maria Lara, Councilor for Culture and Mobility of the Badalona City Council; Juan Antonio Morales, president of Joventut Badalona; Rubén Guijarro, mayor of Badalona; Enric Brazis, Head of Institutional Relations at Endesa in Catalonia; José Miguel Calleja, general director of acb, and Pep Busquets, Joventut player.
  • Endesa, the City Council of Badalona and Tusgsal, the municipal public transport company, have put completely free, electric special bus lines into operation from this Wednesday until Sunday, February 19.

The City Council of Badalona, Endesa and Tusgsal presented a special public transport plan that will connect the headquarters of the Minicopa Endesa and the Copa del Rey with the different activity areas in the city of Badalona throughout the week with a network of electric buses. A three-sided agreement with the support of the ACB will enable travel to the neuralgic points of national basketball from Wednesday until Sunday, 19 February.

Endesa, Badalona City Council and Tusgsal are committed to an open and sustainable transport model, and are making a fully electric shuttle-bus service available to all Basketball Lovers free of charge. They run every ten minutes, so the Poliesportiu Llefià and the Palau Municipal d’Esports in Badalona will be closer than ever for fans to be able to enjoy the two competitions that will be held here. 

The Joventut players, Vladimir Brodziansky and Pep Busquets on the free electric bus that will tour Badalona during the Copa del Rey.
The Joventut players, Vladimir Brodziansky and Pep Busquets on the free electric bus that will tour Badalona during the Copa del Rey.

The event was attended by Rubén Guijarro, mayor of Badalona; Anna Maria Lara, Councillor for Culture and Mobility in the City Council of Badalona; José Miguel Calleja, General Manager of the ACB, Enric Brazis, Endesa's head of institutional relations in Catalonia, José Antonio Parra, Deputy General Manager of Tusgsal, Juan Antonio Morales, President of Joventut Badalona, and Joventut players Vladimir Brodziansky and Pep Busquets.

The lines enabled will be the SE1, with the Gorg – Llefià – Gorg route running every ten minutes from 8.30am to 6.30pm, the SE2 line, with the Gorg – Centre – Montigalà – Gorg route running every ten minutes from 11.30am to6.30pm, and a special shuttle for Friday night on the Gorg – La Nit de la Copa – Centre – Gorg route to enjoy the "Nit de la Copa" organised by the City Council in the Can Ribó polygon.

Institutional representatives inside one of the electric buses.
Institutional representatives inside one of the electric buses.
 

About Endesa

Endesa is the largest electricity company in Spain and the second largest in Portugal. The company is also the second largest gas operator in the Spanish market. Endesa operates an end-to-end generation, distribution and marketing business. Through Endesa X it also offers value-added services aimed at the electrification of energy usage in homes, companies, industries and Public Administrations. Endesa is firmly committed to the United Nations SDGs and strongly supports the development of renewable energies through Enel Green Power España, the digitalisation of grids through e-distribución and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The Endesa Foundation is also active in CSR. Our workforce numbers around 9,260 employees. Endesa is a division of Enel, Europe’s largest electricity group.

 

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