The Ministry of Public Works, Housing and Mobility of the Government of the Canary Islands, through the General Directorate of Transportation and Mobility, directed by María Fernández, has requested the Ministry of Transportation and Sustainable Mobility for a meeting next week to seek solutions and guarantee the continuity of free public land transport for the year 2025, after the repeal in Congress of the decree that included this measure.
Through a letter sent this morning, María Fernández has reiterated her concern “for the current scenario that directly affects the planning and tranquility of the island councils and citizens”.
The General Director of Transportation and Mobility of the Government of the Canary Islands has insisted on the need for the State, which already has a budget item for this purpose, to seek a tool to channel these funds to the Canary Islands, either through a new decree, exclusively on transport matters, or another formula that does not allow these funds to be lost.
“The solution does not involve the island councils diverting funds from other basic needs to maintain this commitment that the Government of the Canary Islands had already closed with the Ministry to extend this service, under the same conditions, during this year.”
Likewise, Fernández has insisted that “the Executive reiterates its willingness to collaborate in the search for an alternative formula that guarantees the financing and implementation of this measure in the Canary Islands” since, she insists, “it is essential to have, as soon as possible, a response so that these funds can reach our community and, with this, the free public land transport is maintained, which has brought so many benefits to the Archipelago, to mobility and to the transformation and improvement of our transport services.”