The Popular Party asks that the Cabildo apply free public transport in Tenerife for the last two months of the year and all of 2023. The popular ones take to the plenary session on Friday a motion to make effective the agreement that the bonuses for recurring use of titsa and Metropolitano, that is, buses and trams, are free between November 1, 2022 and December 31, 2023.
the counselor Manuel Fernandezexplains that they also demand that, “as we unanimously agreed in the debate on the state of the Island” –last April 30–, university students, hospital patients and over 65s maintain free public transport once the general application of the central government ends”-
Fernández, announces that “we will insist on the need for the Cabildo to apply the 100% discount on public transport on the Island of Tenerife.” The PP counselor reflects: “It cannot be that the lack of leadership of the president of the Cabildo turns the people of Tenerife into second-class citizens.” For this reason, he adds, “we are going to request exactly the same conditions of use and management that the State offers to the rest of the citizens of this country.”
Fernández advances that in the proposal they include that «the Cabildo must claim the Canary Islands Government and this, in turn, to the State, an economic compensation for the cost of offering our citizens this aid”, which, as Fernández recalls, “is neither more nor less than what any other Spaniard receives in peninsular territory or in Balearics”.
The PP counselor defends “the the need to comply with the plenary agreements, as the unanimous vote in the Debate on the State of the Island». Then all the political parties agreed to promote a measure, proposed by the PP, to extend beyond four months – from September to December of this year – the free bonuses for university students, hospital patients and those over 65 years of age. .
Fernández values that this measure aims to promote the use of public transport over private transport, help alleviate the economic situation of many families in the current context and mitigate traffic collapses on highways at peak hours.
