The Arona Radio-Taxis Association made public this Wednesday a statement «against the dismantling of the Port of Los Cristianos and the creation of a new one in Fonsalía“, A construction that” would be detrimental to what currently exists in the municipality. ” The taxi drivers maintain that the aronero dock “daily employs fifty licenses out of the 251 that make up the association, all of Arona.” This, apart from the fact that the port “represents an important element of economic sustainability for small and medium-sized companies in the municipality, which make a living from the operation of the Port of Los Cristianos.”
With this public statement, the Arona taxi drivers group explains the “unanimous” criteria of the associates about “the importance and life of the Port of Los Cristianos.” It is at this point where they also make clear “our support for the Arona City Council, with its mayor, José Julián Mena, at the head of this project.”
But the proposal of the Arona Radio-Taxi Association includes its proposal for measures to sustain and reinforce the role of the dock in the beach town. These are three interventions that they value as essential: the improvement and refurbishment of the passenger terminal, building underground roads that have two arrival lanes and two departure lanes, as well as the adaptation of the docking docks of the Port of Los Cristianos.
The Association of Radio-Taxis of the Municipality of Arona, chaired by Pedro Manuel Luis, assures that “these alternatives are those that taxi drivers would appreciate in the daily development of our profession.” This group is convinced that with this «it would improve the flow of traffic, both merchandise and passengers, coming from the Green Islands (La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro) ».
Every 50 licenses work “with a significant volume of users and merchandise” from the Arona dock, a facility that provides such benefits that lead the association to ensure that “we cannot allow the port to move to Fonsalía.” For this reason, “we want to give our support and fight together with the Arona City Council for the Port of Los Cristianos.”
