The Municipal Government of Arrecife, led by Mayor Yonathan de León, has a plan underway to modernize and improve the efficiency of the public bus transport service in the capital of Lanzarote. During these first two years of mandate, an investment of approximately 4 million euros has been allocated to the renewal of the Urban Bus fleet, the largest investment in the history of the city.
Yonathan de León has detailed that the modernization of the fleet, whose average age reaches 20 years in several of its units, "has been one of the priorities of his Government group where each year", since 2023, assigns in the municipal budgets, whose Budget Management Unit is attached to the Mayor's Office, significant items for the acquisition of new buses.
From the Department of Mobility and Transport, led by Councilor Mario González Altube, the first images of the four new buses that the Arrecife City Council tendered at the end of 2024 have been disseminated on the networks these days, which are already in the final phase of assembly in the factory, and will enter service, presumably, at the end of this autumn.
The buses will be powered by electricity and have had an investment of approximately two million euros. The official tenders for this type of vehicle have an average manufacturing time of one year.
Mario González Altube highlights that the upcoming incorporation of these four new units, added to the two launched in December of last year, "will allow strengthening public transport in Arrecife with more routes with shorter travel times, better schedules, and adaptation of services to the mobility needs of the population that already exceeds 72,000 inhabitants".
New tender for two units and new 100% accessible buses
González Altube has advanced that his Department "is finalizing a new tender for the purchase of two new large buses, which will also be 100% accessible, like the two units launched last December, and those that are already in manufacturing". For the tender of these two new buses, the City Council has allocated an economic item of one million euros.