SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife has put the Buenavista del Norte bus station into operation this Monday after the refurbishment works carried out to improve its accessibility and which has had a budget of 450,000 euros and an execution period of six months.
The First Vice President and Minister of Mobility, Enrique Arriaga, together with the Mayor Buenavista, Antonio González, the Insular Director of Mobility, José Alberto León and the manager of Titsa, Raquel Martínez, visited the facilities on Monday.
Arriaga highlights in a note that “the corporation works to improve mobility on the island, in this case modernizing the infrastructure at the bus stations, and the remodeling of Buenavista makes it a more functional, accessible and sustainable facility.”
To this he adds that “the concrete used in the platform of the docks contributes to eliminate the nitrogen oxides that are generated in the combustion of the buses, reducing the carbon footprint”.
The mayor of Buenavista explained that “the bus in the transport within the Teno Rural Park has to be a preferential option and for this, having modern facilities will contribute to it.”
This intervention comes to improve the service provided to users of public transport in the region and is part of the actions carried out by the Mobility area to improve all the facilities on the island.
The works have made it possible to renew the exterior of the building with larger and more accessible docks, anti-vandalism benches and ischial seats.
In addition, a new 150-square-meter wooden canopy has been installed to provide cover for waiting passengers, equipped with low-light pollution lighting, the pavement has been replaced with new asphalt and the information posts have been renewed. at stop.
The interior of the building, which is accessed by a newly created accessible ramp, has been improved with the placement of an adapted information and card sales point, benches, high-contrast signage, an induction system for the deaf, as well as the installation of air conditioning and air renewal in the toilets.
Likewise, the works have made it possible to renovate the bathrooms, creating one that is especially accessible and ostomized, as already exists in other stations on the island.
108,000 TRAVELERS IN 2021
In 2021, a total of 108,000 passengers used the Buenavista station, with an average of 300 per day.
A total of five lines provide services at this station: 355 to Masca and Santiago del Teide, which makes eight daily departures; 363, destination Icod-Los Realejos-Puerto de la Cruz, with 34 exits; 365, destination Masca, which offers five departures; 366, destination Las Portelas, with five exits; and the 369, destination Punta de Teno, making nine departures a day.
