The queues of shame return to the Tenerife Sur airport of tourists waiting for a taxi after arriving on the Island. The problems are repeated on the days when flights arrive the most and the measures announced by the Granadilla de Abona City Councilwhich with the current system has the power to order this transport service, they are not working.
The management of Granada taxiswith the only reinforcement of those from San Miguel de Abona in exceptional cases, she looks completely overwhelmed and unable to put an end to a problem that conveys a sad image of the Islandwhose main industry is precisely tourism.
The photos and videos of endless lines of tourists and residents waiting for a vehicle returned this Friday afternoon. Sources from the tour operating companies assured that the organizers of the service, set up by the Granadilla taxi drivers themselves, are being unable to resolve the chaos. There is a lack of resources and professionalism to serve the second airport with the most passengers in the Canary Islands and the seventh in Spain. with more than 10 million a year.
The photos and videos of endless lines of tourists and residents waiting for a vehicle returned this Friday afternoon
These companies and others, such as hotel companies, demand that the taxi service at the Tenerife South airport be insularized once and for all; That is, taxis from all over the Island can pick up passengers at the facility and not only those from Granadilla and in exceptional cases those from San Miguel de Abono, as is the case now.
The stampwhich gives so much bad image of the island, It has been occurring in recent months at the time of the most flight arrivals to Tenerife South.. It especially affects the waiting area for a taxi.
The problem is due to several factors: the already mentioned that only taxis from Granadilla and San Miguel de Abona can pick up passengers with the current regulation, the traffic jams on the nearby Southern Highway and that the protocol has not been developed in this airport area as sensitive areastatement that was approved by the Tenerife Cabildo in 2012 but it was not developed.
This sensitive area declarationthat has not been implemented although now wants to resume the new island government chaired by Rosa Dávila (Canary Coalition), would allow that at times of massive flight arrivals, Taxis from other municipalities can also pick up passengers.
After the Council would announce that recovered the project to declare the South airport as a sensitive areato end this problem, The Granadilla de Abona City Council, whose mayor is the socialist Jennifer Miranda, unanimously decided in the plenary session on November 30 to reject this declaration.
To solve the problem, the Cabildo and the businessmen demand that the airport be declared a sensitive area, but the Granadilla City Council refuses.
He Granada City Council opposed the declaration of a sensitive area in the most forceful way possible: through an institutional motion supported unanimously by the entire plenary session.
The aforementioned motion, presented by the members of the Granada Government (PSOE and PP), includes a action protocol in cases where the queue of passengers waiting for a taxi at the airport exceeds 20 minutes. But it is failing because the images of the queues continue to arrive from Tenerife South.
It curious the thing is CC and PP in the Cabildowho rule in covenant, They strongly urge the declaration of Tenerife South as a sensitive area To put an end to these queues, which force tourists to wait more than an hour, but nevertheless in Granadilla the representatives of these same parties voted against this measure.
