The councilor of the Popular Party in the Council of TenerifeManuel Fernández, denounces that the public company Metrotenerife, which manages the tram, “has been without a manager for more than a year” after the resignation of the previous person in charge, Andrés Muñoz, who “had a technical and professional profile that made him an essential figure for promoting mobility infrastructures on the Island during the exercise of his functions”. “One year after the resignation of the manager,” Fernández emphasizes, “the Metropolitano public company still does not have a manager, with an adequate professional profile, who directs and plans the necessary actions to improve mobility in our territory.”
In fact, the popular councilor links the absence of management in the aforementioned public company “to the absolute absence of rigorous planning on the necessary mobility infrastructures in Tenerife”, as well as “to the back and forth and the folly that have governed the decisions that the Cabildo takes in the field of mobility, with a president who is completely absent from reality and from the needs of Tenerife ».
Enrique Arriaga, Minister of Mobility and President of Metrotenerife, clarified yesterday his area works to fill the vacant position. “For it work is being done with the elaboration of the bases of the public tender that are about to be approved and published». On September 1, 2021, Andrés Muñoz voluntarily left his position as manager of Metropolitano de Tenerife to assume the position of CEO at Cuna del Alma. According to Arriaga, “since then, both the insular director of Mobility, José Alberto León, and myself have acted as managers of the public company, carrying out all the functions that this position entails.” “During this time,” adds Arriaga, “not only has activity in the company not come to a standstill, but, in addition, the passenger and management objectives set by society have been exceeded.”
The Popular Party adviser, however, believes that “a senior management figure in this company is essential, not only for day-to-day work, but also to promote and lead the railway planning in Tenerife for the coming years, both in relation to the possible extensions of the tramway as well as to the development of the project of the train of the South».
