The island group of Sí Podemos Canarias, an external partner of the Government of the Cabildo (PSOE, Ciudadanos), has launched harsh criticism against the management of the island vice president, Enrique Arriaga (Cs), which he came to label as “disastrous.” María José Belda, spokesperson for Sí Podemos Canarias, criticized Arriaga that the situation of public companies such as Titsa or the Technological and Renewable Energy Institute (ITER) is “quite worrying”, given that “the services offered by these companies, like the installations, are proving increasingly inefficient.”
Belda considers “alarming” the “deficiencies and needs” that the bus public transport company is going through, since “in these years there has been a reduction in services, resources, cancellation of lines and lack of personnel in certain departments , as in the company’s own workshops, which are causing the outsourcing and gradual death of this island public transport service.
María José Belda explained that “since we have requested the appearance and certain information about Titsa, it seems that frequencies and new lines are being activated”, which Sí Podemos Canarias believes is “part of a false reactivation of the company by the responsible of the area”. The insular spokesperson clarifies that “our main suspicion is that this public company is being dismantled in an interested and intentional way, thus depriving citizens of the possibility of having a short-term solution to mobility problems based on a service of efficient public transportation of buses that responds to the needs of the municipalities of the Island, through punctuality, reliability and with economic prices within the reach of all pockets. “In this way, it is intended that the population of Tenerife accept the start-up of a train as a desperate solution to the serious problem of traffic jams that we all suffer daily,” she clarified.
In relation to the situation of ITER and the projects developed by this public company, María José Belda points out that Vice President Arriaga “has been devoting himself to announcing projects, but has forgotten to develop them.” Belda criticizes that, after three years, “the company continues with the same contribution for the implementation of renewable energies and anyone who has installed two photovoltaic panels in their home has already done more for clean energy than the Innovation area in this weather”. The island councilor declares that the management of the company “does not have adequate training to be in charge of it, which has caused this paralysis in the development of ITER projects.”
