SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Feb. 10 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Canarian Coalition of Tenerife has highlighted this Thursday its commitment in a “clear and resounding” way to the implementation of the Tren del Sur as a formula to improve mobility on the island within the sustainable and efficient transport model, a solution based on renewable energies.
The general secretary of CC de Tenerife, Francisco Linares, assures in a note that guided transport “is reliable, safe and sustainable, and it is necessary to take into account the mobility needs in the southern corridor of the island, where the train project from the south contemplates a Train-Tram in the corridor between San Isidro and the tourist area of Los Cristianos”.
In this sense, Linares recalls that the tram and trains “are bets of the Canarian Coalition and everyone knows that, many of those who opposed the tram applaud it today and it has been shown that guided transport is a good solution for improve mobility.
The island secretary also indicated that “Tenerife cannot give up guided transport projects because it is one of the solutions to improve mobility on the island together with other actions such as the BUS-HOV lanes”.
Thus, he criticized that Pedro Martín’s “lack of leadership” and the different positions of the PSOE with this and other projects “make Tenerife lag behind.”
In the last two years, he explained, “we have lost competitiveness and one more example is that in Gran Canaria all the parties support the train, while in Tenerife they do not.”
For Linares, “Pedro Martín puts his interests before those of Tenerife because Sí Podemos Canarias threatened him with breaking the pact in the Cabildo if he supported the train, he is thinking of him and not of the citizens of Tenerife and we cannot be left behind in this matter “.
LINARES CHARGES AGAINST “THE VAIVENES” OF THE PSOE
Likewise, he lamented the different positions of the PSOE in the Cabildo de Tenerife and in the Government of the Canary Islands, since the autonomous president Ángel Víctor Torres has assured that he is in favor of the train, while the insular president says that it is not a priority and that It costs a lot.
“The ups and downs of the PSOE in the Government and in the Cabildo make Tenerife stay behind,” he stressed.
Now, he said, “there is a historic opportunity to receive money from Spain and Europe to develop the train and take advantage of the previous work that has been done by the Canary Coalition in recent years from the Cabildo.”
Along these lines, he highlights that “in Gran Canaria they have understood it that way and all the parties support it, but not here, the only reason why Pedro Martín and the PSOE do not support the train is because their position is at risk, but they have have to have a high vision and think about the good of Tenerife and its citizens and not about their own”.
