The president of the Tenerife Cabildo, Rosa Dávila, has insisted that guided means, trains, “are the long-term solution” to the island’s mobility problems, and that is why the island government “is going to relaunch” rail transport projects, “completely paralyzed” during the previous mandate under the presidency of the socialist Pedro Martín.
The train project has an estimated cost of more than 2.2 billion euros so, in the context of the COVID pandemic and the tourist stoppage it caused on the islands, the Cabildo, governed by the PSOE in the last legislature, I consider that It was not “a priority.””. Furthermore, precisely that project, “exorbitant” cost According to Sí Podemos, it was a red line marked by that party to support Martín’s investiture as island president. The motion to promote these works was then paralyzed by lack of consensus.
Dávila has stressed that the agreement between the PSOE and CC for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez “can give the possibility of having rail transport and, furthermore, for it to be assumed by the State.”
On the other hand, it announced this Tuesday that the works to extend tram line 2 to Muñeco de Nieve, in La Gallega, will begin next year.
Dávila made this announcement in a Canarian Television program in which he also announced that the Tenerife Cabildo has reached an agreement with the hotel and non-hotel employers of the Tenerife province (Ashotel) to implement collective transportation that will benefit workers. of a dozen hotels in the south of the island.
These measures, he explained, are part of “the commitment” he made during the electoral campaign to alleviate and improve the traffic situation on the island’s roads. He then said that he would end the traffic jams in just 90 days, but once in the island presidency he said that the problem was “complicated” and that his words had been taken out of context.