The candidate for the Cabildo de Tenerife charges against the “inaction” of the PSOE and says that she will not “resign” to the traffic jams
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 9. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The candidate of the Canary Islands Coalition (CC) for the Presidency of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, has presented this Tuesday her plan to alleviate the queues in 90 days in Tenerife after a mandate in which the “inaction” of the PSOE and its president, Pedro Martín, has increased traffic jams on the island.
The details have been exposed in a press conference accompanied by José Miguel Ruano, number two of the candidacy, plus Isabel de Esteban and Pedro Millán, in which he has made it clear that he is not going to “resign” or remain “in arms Crusaders” while the queues continue on the island awaiting the development of major road works.
Thus, he has proposed a set of five major measures that can be developed in the first three months of his mandate and that include staggering the entry and exit of workers from public administrations and large companies, reinforcing public and private school transport, decentralizing public services, launch a specific strategy for the University of La Laguna and ration the use of private vehicles with the promotion of public transport.
The nationalist candidate has pointed out that the island has 828 cars for every 1,000 inhabitants, only 27% of the trips are made through public transport and the average occupation of the private car is one or two people.
Thus, he has indicated that the situation on the island has only “worsened” and that is why he has launched this first package of measures that “are not foolish” but are included in the Canary Islands climate change law or in the state mobility law that is being processed in Congress.
MEET THE MONITORING COMMITTEE WITH THE DGT
He has also said that the measures are going to be the result of “consensus” with economic and social agents and for this reason, he has announced that if he is president he will convene the monitoring commission with the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT), which has not met in this mandate.
Dávila has insisted on making public transport “more attractive” with the creation of more lines to reach the entire island, promoting the ‘express’ lines to connect the municipalities with the large work centers or creating direct routes in the regions for the university students with shuttle buses.
In the specific case of the ULL, he has advocated designing a mobility strategy agreed with the institution and putting an end to the proposals “without rhyme or reason” that the president of the Cabildo has made “offering money” in exchange for changing the schedules.
It has also proposed recovering the ‘Cabildo bus’ for workers’ travel and trying to promote collective transport for large companies and hotels, and to speed up private traffic it has proposed having more information panels in real time and a system of ‘ checkpoint cranes’ to act more quickly on highways.
Regarding school transport, he has put on the table the possibility of creating a circuit between private and subsidized schools, especially in La Laguna, to share buses, and create a “stop and kiss” system to avoid “traffic jams” next to the centers.
Regarding the decentralization of services, apart from completing the development of regional hospitals, it has announced the signing of an agreement with the autonomous community and the State so that negotiations can be carried out with those administrations through the offices that the Cabildo It has scattered all over the island.
Dávila has also indicated that he is going to meet with representatives of the Canary Islands Logistics Cluster to evaluate what can be done with transport and industrial estates and has also indicated that since the last mandate they have detected up to 13 ‘dissuasive parking lots’ in various municipalities so that users of public transport can park their car.
Along these lines, he has commented that they have the collaboration of some mayors, some, such as that of Santa Úrsula, with immediate availability.
YES TO THE THIRD LANE OF THE TF-5 BUT WITH AGREEMENT AND BUS-HOV LANE
In order to improve traffic in the medium and long term, the nationalists have proposed making small changes to the signage on several links and roundabouts in connections with the TF-5, betting decisively on the southern train with State funding — plus the possibility of building a commuter train between Santa Cruz and Tacoronte–, and build the third lane of the TF-5 but always including a BUS-HOV lane.
Dávila has specified that his group has not moved from its position with this project, which has gone on public display “without consensus with the city councils and during the electoral period”, and without including the BUS-HOV lane, when the section between Los Rodeos and Guamasa was ready to bid and was “paralyzed” by the PSOE for more than two years.
The candidate has indicated that the current project has a “great impact” on some populations and has charged against the “obscurantism” of the PSOE for promoting this project “less than a month before the elections.”
However, he has indicated that his proposals are not “occurrences” or “improvisations” but rather respond to Pedro Martín’s lack of decision-making in the last four years, whom he has reproached for not wanting to publicly debate mobility.
