SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The acting president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martín, has urged this Thursday the new Government of the Canary Islands to adopt the necessary measures to guarantee a regulation of the licenses of transport vehicles with driver (VTC) that avoids a “massive entry into the island”.
Martín has shown his concern about the possible consequences that the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union, dated June 8, on this type of transport could have on the island territory.
“The Cabildo de Tenerife currently has 2,350 applications submitted for new licences, a figure that we consider absolutely disproportionate and unaffordable for the island. Therefore, we understand that, beyond the clarifications recently made by the acting regional government, in the that it is indicated that it will not affect the Canary Islands, it is necessary to determine with more precision and for greater guarantee, the regulation of the number of licenses that can be granted”, it indicates in a note.
The president explains that the Cabildo de Tenerife is already preparing a document to transfer it to the Government of the Canary Islands.
“Taking into account that the current government is in office, as soon as Parliament is constituted, this issue must be taken as an absolute priority, so as not to endanger the livelihood of many families on the island,” he details.
Based on the quota of one VTC license for every 30 existing taxis, legally established in the Canary Islands Transport legislation, in Tenerife there are 85 licenses granted, “which guarantees availability for the entire island of high-end vehicles and services for serve a very specialized market.
Although at this moment all the new license applications are rejected because there is not enough space to approve them, in light of the new events, Martín points out that “this situation could turn around, taking into account that the number of licenses that are requested multiplies by 28 the existing ones”.
In his opinion, “this would mean bankruptcy in the public transport sector, having a very negative impact on the thousands of taxi licenses that exist on the island and on the small companies that already operate, introducing an enormous volume of authorizations into the market for which the island is not prepared”.
