SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 19 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Tenerife Canary Coalition assured this Thursday that the PSOE proposals made by its island president, Pedro Martín, to solve the queues on the island and that were based solely on building more roads, “come to confirm for themselves that the former island president “He did absolutely nothing during his mandate to solve the traffic jams in Tenerife.”
“The great achievement of the PSOE and Pedro Martín during their four years of government was to increase the queues to La Orotava, in addition to resigning themselves saying that this problem would not be solved until 2028,” they criticize in a note.
The Tenerife nationalists remember that Pedro Martín “was incapable of taking a single measure to improve mobility in Tenerife, and in the face of this neglect, there is currently an insular Government, with the nationalist president Rosa Dávila at the head, which in 90 days has done more than the PSOE in four years, as can be seen in the fact that more than 30 meetings have been held with the different economic and social agents of Tenerife and 20 measures have been implemented to alleviate the serious traffic problem that we have on the island.”
CC de Tenerife details, for example, that in July 2019 there were nine road projects that the Government of Carlos Alonso prepared to execute for an amount of 45 million euros. “However, with the PSOE in power, everything was paralyzed and slowed down,” they point out.
The nationalists also remember that “the only work that the socialists did were actions that were already scheduled and executed by the previous CC government, such as the works on the Padre Anchieta walkway, the burying of the TF-24 or the resurfacing of the northern and southern highways.
Furthermore, in 2020, 15 million euros in the Roads area were left unexecuted, they comment.
Regarding mobility, CC describes the management of Pedro Martín and the PSOE as “shameful”, since they voted against free transport in Tenerife.
“The government group at the time opposed a measure that has been shown to be good for Tenerife and its people, since the data corroborates it,” they say.
According to data from the Cabildo, the island of Tenerife has had a cumulative increase of 16.3 million public transport users in the first seven months of the year, reaching 50.9 million users in the Titsa and Metrotenerife companies.
In the case of Titsa, in the period from January to July a total of 38.5 million people used the bus, that is, almost 12 million more than in the same period of 2022, which represents 45.74% more Travellers.
For its part, Metrotenerife is also experiencing an unprecedented increase in users, breaking record numbers with 12.4 million users.
In this way, between January and July of this year a total of 12.4 million people used the tram compared to 8.1 million in the same period of the previous year, which represents an increase of 4.2 million (52, 4%).
DESPERATE MEASURES WITHOUT PLANNING
For CC, Pedro Martín, “at the last minute he announced unplanned measures, such as what he tried to do with the ULL’s schedules, a desperate and poorly worked proposal in which the Cabildo contributed two million euros to the Faculty of Medicine when there are only 66 students from the first ULL Medicine courses who are registered in the north of Tenerife.”
Among all these actions, they say, “we cannot forget the famous Highway Technical Office that they were going to implement, it lasted less than three months and they had to close it because it was a total failure, not to mention the disbandment of the Highway service, of which up to four engineers left.”
