The number of bus passengers in Canary Islands has grown by 26.6 percent in the first half of 2021, as reported this Wednesday by the Statistics National Institute (INE). Urban transport was used by more than 182.1 million travelers in June compared to more than 106.7 million in the same month of 2020 (+ 71%).
The strong rises in the number of passengers using urban bus transport registered in all the communities last June do not allow any of them to recover the figures that were reached before the pandemic.
The closest is the Canary Islands, where its almost 4.4 million travelers of urban buses are only 16.7% below the slightly more than five million of June 2019. In the month of June 2020 the number of travelers in the Archipelago was slightly above three million, which implies that in one year the increase has been 45.2 “%.
In the period from January to June, the number of travelers who have used urban transport has increased by 10.7% compared to the same period in 2020.
During the month, more than 109.9 million passengers used urban transport by bus, compared to more than 64 million in the same month last year.
The accumulated variation of the first six months of the year is positive in all the autonomous communities, except in Región de Murcia (-5.1%). The Canary Islands (26.6%), Catalonia (25.0%) and the Basque Country (21.8%) registered the highest growth accumulated in the first half of the year.
