He Population increase in the Canary Islandsthan the president Fernando ClavijoParliamentin 20,000 people every year and 570,000 since 2020has an undoubted incidence in public services offered by local, insular and regional institutions.
In this sense, the president defended in the control session that mobility is a key issue for the economic and social development of the islands but acknowledged that “only with road works we will not solve the problem.”
“We have to promote free and free public transport and advance the construction of guided transport and start the trains of Gran Canaria and Tenerife,” he told a question from the question of the ASG leader, Casimiro Curbeloon the actions to avoid the traffic collapses in the two capital islands.
The president claimed to be “aware that the problems of both housing and mobility grow proportionally to the permanent and floating population, which is why his cabinet is not only making infrastructure, but enhancing public transport in both capital islands and, in this sense, he insisted on” the impulse “that he will mean” to put guided transport if we want to have mobility capacity for the population we have at the moment. “
“Canary Islands has overflowed”
“Canary Islands has overflowed from the point of view of population growth, both tourist and residential and we will not always be able to make more highways, so we take measures to restrict traffic, among other reasons because we have more increase with more than 1.8 million vehicles every day, plus tourists” replied Curbelo.
Within the debate on connectivity and mobility in the regional chamber, the Minister of Public Works and Transportation, Pablo Rodríguez, advanced that in case it remains without having General State Budgets (PGE) in 2026the regional executive studies the possibility of negotiating another Extension to the 2018-2027 road agreement and “take it until 2034”.
During an appearance in the Regional Chamber, Rodríguez has alluded to the difficulties regarding the possibility that there are soon state accounts, so that he does not see with bad eyes, such as “Plan B”, that the pending financial files are incorporated through that extension until 2034, although the priority would be to sign a new agreement.
This extension is necessary to end the current agreement, even if it is “evident” that the aspiration of the Canarian government is to have a new agreement and a new financial record “that cannot be less than the 1.2 billion euros of 20-27” and that it must allow “to complete the transinsular axis of roads of the Canary Islands of insular interest.”
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