titsa leads the national ranking in passenger growth in the last three months. The island councilor for Mobility and president of the Cabildo transport company, Enrique Arriaga, recalls that the island institution has reinforced services or acquired new buses, among other measures, without increasing the price of tickets and highlights that the company transported from March to May 2022 to 11,649,230 passengers, 2.4% more than in the same period before the Covid-19 pandemic.
Enrique Arriaga describes these data as “very positive” and places the company at the head of the sector at a national level. Likewise, he considers that they endorse the policy of commitment to public transport that his area has been developing since he took office.
«From the Cabildo we have reinforced services, extended routes, acquired new buses, more comfortable, accessible and respectful with the environment and, all this, without increasing the price of tickets to make the bus and the tram the first option for moving around the Island”, assures the counselor.
Analysis work
The insular director of Mobility, José Alberto León, highlights the Analysis and continuous listening work carried out by Titsa to adapt to the needs of its passengers, which makes it possible to reinforce services based on demand. He adds that “these figures, which were analyzed by the Communication and Institutional Relations Commission of the Association of Urban and Metropolitan Public Transport (ATUC), support the work being done by Titsa to improve the service.”
All of the company’s routes experienced increases in the number of customers compared to the 2019 figures.
Interurban lines transported a total of 9,029,952 passengers in the analyzed period from March to May, which is equivalent to an increase of 6.3% compared to the same period in 2019.
The service of the metropolitan area and adjacent municipalities records very similar passenger figures to 2019, with a slight increase, adding 3,388,122 passengers on the buses.
Others routes that had a very positive evolution were long-distance flights to the north and to the south, which recorded increases of 15.2% and 30%, respectively, compared to the same period in 2019. In the last three months of this year, they used the services to or from the south of the Island to Santa Cruz, a total of 833,356 passengers, compared to 641,055 who did so before the pandemic. To or from the north to Santa Cruz, in the same period, 865,332 passengers traveled compared to 750,931 in 2019.
Titsa buses provide service 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. To facilitate passenger access to vehicles, it has approximately 3,800 stops distributed throughout the island territory.
In global figures, the company has a fleet of more than 600 vehicles. In addition, it moves more than 45 million travelers a year. It also exceeds 35 million kilometers traveled annually through 180 lines.
The Titsa team is made up of 1,711 professionals, of which more than 1,200 are drivers. Almost 250 make up the workshop staff, 150 work in the stations and in traffic tasks and a team of 90 people is dedicated to the administration and direction of the public entity.
