A TOILET lid and a hearth extinguisher have been a number of the extra uncommon gadgets left behind on TRAM d’Alacant providers final yr.
Different misplaced items included bicycles, scooters, suitcases, crutches, canes, bike helmets, ice coolers, a hair dryer, and even a builder’s building shovel.
2,494 gadgets have been present in 2024- a median of seven per day- with the busiest month being October(442).
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Items are saved by native tram stations for a month after which an additional 4 weeks on the misplaced property warehouse primarily based at Luceros station.
If after that stage, no person makes a declare, gadgets go to the Alicante Policia Native or for recycling if they’re in an apparent poor state.
Official paperwork like id and well being playing cards, driving licenses, and passports are handed over to the police instantly, in order that they are often returned.
Financial institution and bank cards are destroyed instantly for safety causes.
Over 37% of misplaced items have been reclaimed in 2024- helped by customer support employees who do some detective work in monitoring down house owners.
Wallets and purses, keys, backpacks, paperwork, telephones, glasses, folders, umbrellas and baggage accounted for the majority of things left behind on trams.
