Enrique Arriaga wants the South train to be part of the Railway Network of General Interest (RFIG). To do this, he demands the support of the Plenary of the Cabildo for the proposal that he will defend in this regard in the ordinary session to be held tomorrow. If the central government attends to this request, the spokesman at the Insular Corporation of Citizens (Cs), Enrique Arriaga, assures that the execution of the project and the Island will benefit from state and European funding.
Arriaga asks all political groups “to put aside partisan interests and unite to demand what in justice corresponds to Tenerife, the inclusion of the Island in the most important investment item of the State.” Demand of the four remaining forces represented in the Plenary (PSOE, CC, PP and Sí Podemos Canarias) «that they do it for the inhabitants of the Island and to put Tenerife in motion, placing it in its rightful place».
Connoisseur of the matter as an island councilor for Highways, Enrique Arriaga insists that, in order to put an end to the serious mobility problems that are registered on the Island, «It is not only necessary to improve the state of the road network of Tenerife, incorporate Bus-Vao lanes and finish the Insular Ring». In his opinion, “the implementation of the Southern train is essential, a rapid public transport that responds to a historical demand of the population.”
The also vice president of the island institution anticipates that Ciudadanos will present a similar motion in the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, while demanding that the Government of the Canary Islands support them and that they “end the comparative grievance that the Archipelago is the only autonomous territory Spanish in which the State does not invest in railways, when there are projects ready for execution, “says the regional leader of the orange formation. Along these lines, he recalls that the Canary Islands and, therefore, Tenerife have traditionally been absent in the distribution of railway investments, “which is a serious detriment to mobility.” With this scenario, Arriaga asks “that a Canarian has the same right as a Basque or a Madrilenian to benefit from the Railway Network of Regional Interest, the largest investment item in the State.”
Enrique Arriaga now assures that “it is essential to implement” the projected railway line to Costa Adeje
Tenerife has a south railway projectan environmentally sustainable, clean and efficient transport, which would alleviate the serious mobility problems that exist in the south of the Island, Cs concludes in its statement.
In October 2020, Arriaga assured that the South train “is not a priority, but it is an opportunity”, in harmony with its partner, the PSOE, which conditions this work so that the Cabildo does not contribute “not one euro” and, therefore, it is financed by the supra-insular administrations. Europe returns this infrastructure to the political life of the Island by opening the possibility of contributing finalist resources for its construction. Last November, he confirmed to the Plenary that the Cabildo renounces 5 million from the State for the planning of the trains because they are not going to continue allocating finalist money to projects that do not have the committed financing or social and political consensus.
