SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 8. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The first vice president of the Cabildo and president of Metrotenerife, Enrique Arriaga, has presented the mayors of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and La Laguna, José Manuel Bermúdez and Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, respectively, with a commemorative plaque for the 15 years of operation of the tram uniting the two metropolitan municipalities.
Arriaga points out in a note that “the tram has changed mobility in both cities, a means of transport to which new passengers are added every day due to punctuality, frequency and price”.
Thus, he recalls that “over these fifteen years the tram has transported more than 200 million passengers and has avoided more than two million vehicles to both cities”.
In his opinion, “guided transport is, in the opinion of the experts, the best alternative to private transport, a means that the large international organizations are betting on due to the number of passengers it can transport on each trip and its lower energy consumption” .
The mayor, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, explains that the start-up of the tram “has been a great boost for accessible and sustainable mobility”.
In addition, it connects with one of the main objectives that, from the City Council of La Laguna, have been marked for the municipality, “to promote universal accessibility and reduce the use of private vehicles”.
According to Gutiérrez, it is “a modern and effective medium thanks to its own staff”, for which he congratulates the Cabildo de Tenerife and all the people who make up the staff “and who make it work every day because, without them, it would not be this essential service possible.
For the mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, José Manel Bermúdez, “the tram’s 15 years of operation are good news for mobility in the metropolitan area, it was a highly contested project at the beginning, but over time it has essential to connect the two municipalities and, mainly, to offer an efficient transport alternative to the citizens of the neighborhoods through which it passes”.
In this sense, he maintains that “the tram is an element that promotes cohesion in the metropolitan area and whose expansion must continue in the coming years.”
Since its commissioning, the tram has traveled more than 21 million kilometers, the equivalent of 525 trips around the world, or traveling to the Moon 55 times.
