Since taking office, the president of the Tenerife Council, Rosa Davilamade it clear that one of his priorities during his mandate was to reduce traffic jams on the island’s roads. Since then, his Government has been focused on making decisions aimed at alleviating mobility problems, mainly on the two highways of Tenerifeand that involves encouraging the use of public transport in order to reduce the use of private vehicles.
Along these lines, Dávila announced yesterday NOTICE DIARY that starting October 1, the Cabildo will extend free use of the tram and buses. Thus, from next Sunday the requirement that users must meet will be to make 10 trips and not 15 as until now during the 30 days prior to the moment in which the next subscription is purchased. If they do not do so, they must pay the corresponding price when renewing it.
The tickets for this free ticket will continue to be the Canary Resident Bonus, Youth Subscription, Senior Subscription and Subscription for People with Disabilities, and the Cabildo will assume the cost of this measure entirely with its own funds.
“We have detected that many people are not able to comply with the 15 trip cancellations and this means losing this benefit in the subscription. It happened, for example, on vacation and that is why we have decided to make this requirement more flexible so that more people can use public transportation for free,” declares the island president.
In parallel, given that free transportation has had an impact on the increase in the number of passengers, the public bus company Titsa will reinforce the lines that are most saturated at peak times. To this end, Dávila emphasizes, 25 drivers are already being trained who will join the staff next month, although the number will increase to 67. “There are people who cannot get on the bus if it is full and they have to wait for the bus. next”, he maintains, with which this measure aims to avoid this type of damage to users. The reinforcement will be for both urban and interurban lines and also, as already announced on several occasions, shuttle lines will be provided to the University of La Laguna.
These needs have been detected in a study carried out by the island Government and the Titsa company in this mandate.
It has not been the first nor the last measure adopted by the Tenerife Cabildo. It is worth remembering that a tram vehicle has recently been added to line 1 to strengthen the service and provide greater frequency. In this way, the five-minute wait time has been reduced to almost 4 and a half minutes of frequency at each stop.
Furthermore, at the beginning of the month it was decided to limit the circulation of waste trucks that travel on both the TF-5 and TF-1 highways. With this, 60 trips a week are eliminated during the time slot between 5:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., contributing to the relief of road traffic, especially after seven in the morning, when the level of congestion on both roads is more pronounced.
The other decision has been to reduce the removal times for damaged or damaged vehicles on public roads. The Cabildo of Tenerife will sign agreements with the tow truck companies to remove these cars in less than 15 minutes so that they do not represent an obstacle to traffic.
Last Friday, Rosa Dávila presented the first phase of the Sustainable Mobility Plan, which advocates organizing the Island by promoting the use of public transportation and discouraging private vehicles after the second meeting of the working commission with economic agents and social.
To achieve this purpose, different alternatives are studied that combine road infrastructure projects, improvement of public transport, rail transport and mobility policies, which include everything from parking regulation to the establishment of Low Emission Zones.
