The Ministry of Transport of the Government of the Canary Islands has transferred 3.3 million euros to the Cabildo of Lanzarote for the acquisition of three sustainable buses and the construction of a preferential stop in Costa Teguise.
The funds, which come from the Funds of the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism Next Generation of the EU, are part of a batch of 36 million euros for 20 projects of the different councils to promote the digitalization and decarbonization of the land transport sector in the islands. To this are added another 5 million for projects of the Ministry itself. All projects financed with these funds must be completed before April 2025.
The Ministry thus finances the projects presented by the councils and which will mainly be used to buy electric vehicles for bus fleets and other public vehicles, to implement more charging points for this type of vehicle, to create new Bus-HOV lanes, to build bus interchanges or to install smart shelters at the stops.
With these funds, whose distribution was agreed and closed with the councils months ago, a decisive boost will be given to the updating of the land transport sector in the Canary Islands, the promotion of low emission zones, decarbonization, and the digitalization of the entire public land transport sector of the Archipelago.
