The Santa Cruz City Council has given the green light to financing the purchase of 19 buses that will be incorporated into the urban service of Santa Cruz. These are hybrid vehicles that have a cost of 7,151,077 euros, which will be financed at a rate of 2.3 million per year for the next three years, with the first payment taking place in 2023. The capital has proceeded to approve the financing once that the Cabildo de Tenerife has communicated to the City Council the award of the contract so that titsa acquire 120 buses, among which are the 19 from Santa Cruz.
The unit cost of each of these buses is 349,700 euros, and its characteristics are those of a suburban vehicle, low entry, 12 meters and hybrid. This unit price, which gives rise to a total of 7.1 million, is still a provisional figure, since, as stated in the financing agreement, the expenses related to commissioning, monetary, TFTs and video surveillance systems, whose unit price is 2,050 euros. This means that the total expenses related to the start-up of the vehicles amounts to 41,676 euros more. The expected date of availability of these vehicles is scheduled for the first quarter of next year.
Part of the money that the City Council is going to invest in this purchase comes from the transport subsidy obtained in 2021 worth two million, and that at the time, the previous mayor of Public Services, Guillermo Díaz Guerra, announced that it would be used for the acquisition of these buses. As the mayor explained then, 19 buses stopped providing service at the end of the year with the consequent damage to the neighbors.
