Transportes Interurbanos de Tenerife (TITSA), a transport company attached to the Cabildo de Tenerife, will add 20 buses to its fleet with the aim of meeting the increase in demand. The acquisition will be made through a lease so that they start operating “as soon as possible” and will have a budget of more than 4 million euros, explained the Cabildo.
The president of Titsa and Minister of Mobility, Enrique Arriaga, has indicated that the increase in the number of users of public transport has led to the need to resort to rent in order to have new buses in operation “in the shortest period of time possible ”.
Likewise, he has assured that “the lease is a temporary and quick solution to improve and increase the service provided by TITSA until the new buses of the fleet are incorporated and thus meet the growing demand.”
The counselor highlighted that in September, the transport company accounted for 4,121,665 passengers.
On the other hand, Arriaga has indicated that in addition to the arrival of these vehicles, until the month of March the transport company will receive, in stages, 60 hybrid buses that are part of the batch of 110 vehicles acquired by the insular corporation to use in urban and interurban lines.
The insular director of Mobility, José Alberto León, has added that four of the vehicles that are acquired will provide urban services while the remaining 16 will carry out intercity routes and will have a greater number of places that reach 67, looking in both cases for buses with casualties CO2 emissions and with different features that increase passenger comfort.
For the award of this lease, the transport company has launched a tender to which companies from all over the country can apply and in which the lowest vehicle mileage, social criteria such as the number of seats for people with reduced mobility or, for example, whether or not they have indicator lights or seat belts in each of their seats.
