The demand in the Tenerife tram is close to 2019 figures and it stands at 97% of the capacity it had that year. The Minister of Mobility of the Cabildo and president of Metrotenerife, Enrique Arriaga, underlines that the service currently reaches 55,000 passengers per day on working days and 39,000 during the weekend with data that unifies Line and 2.
Metrotenerife, the Cabildo transport company, begins to register levels of demand prior to the pandemic since the beginning of the year. In these first three months of 2022, the number of travelers has grown progressively and continues along the same lines. In such a way that last February figures similar to those of 2019 were reached, the year prior to the Covid-19 pandemic and the year with the highest demand in the history of the Tenerife tram.
Arriaga highlights the fact that “we are only 3% away from the demand reached in 2019, after two years of living with the coronavirus.”
data for optimism
Also Vice President of counciladds: “The average number of weekdays, over 50,000 passengers, is very high, as is that of weekends with 25,000 passengers on Saturdays and about 14,000 on Sundays”.
In addition, it should be taken into account that a few weeks ago Line 1 of the tram, which runs from the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Interchange to Trinidad Avenue in La Laguna, has returned to operating in night service during the early hours of Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. For this reason, Arriaga values, “it is very likely that weekend users will increase even more.”
As for the Balance for the 2021 financial year, the Tenerife Tram exceeded 12.5 million passengers. Since then, the demand trend has been positive and has grown progressively and in parallel with the favorable evolution of the pandemic data, as well as the normalization of teaching activity and daily face-to-face work.
Finally, Enrique Arriaga mentions as a favorable factor the low or null incidence of Covid-19 associated with public transport, in addition to the preventive measures taken, which have helped citizens regain confidence in public transport. Under the generic motto #TranviaSeguro #TranviaSeguro.
