A few days after the attempted assault by a passenger on a bus driver in mid-January on the line that was delayed on the route in Puerto del Carmen (Tías), there was an altercation by young underage migrants in the vehicle of Line 16 that ran the route between Arrecife and La Santa (Tinajo).
The events occurred on the afternoon of January 28, according to one of the four drivers (two women and two men) who usually make the journey and who prefers to remain anonymous.
The misbehavior of more than fifteen boys, inmates of the reception center for unaccompanied migrant minors located in the town of La Santa, dependent on the Cabildo de Lanzarote, forced the Local Police of Tinajo to intervene, whose agents urged more than a dozen of them to get off the bus at the Mancha Blanca stop due to the scandal they were causing during a good part of the journey, bothering the rest of the passengers.
And not only that. The interior of the passenger compartment ended up with broken seats and a screen, dirt, food and clothes on the seats and in the aisle, according to a person who witnessed the events.
The president of CCOO in Arrecife Bus/Intercity Bus, Ricardo Hernández, tells La Voz that "the drivers who are in charge of that line feel less safe and the company management has been aware of this problem for several years and have not done anything to solve it".
Other routes have also had problems
Hernández also points out that other routes have had problems, "on lines 7 and 26 that provide service to the northern area of Máguez and Yé, passengers have recently verbally assaulted the drivers of these routes, so much so that today we have two drivers on medical leave for feeling overwhelmed by the stress produced by the service, since the schedule is not enough to arrive on time due to so much demand from passengers and vehicles on the public road". "And users do not understand that the bus driver is not to blame," laments Ricardo Hernández.
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