The mayor, Yonathan de León, stated this Tuesday morning in a meeting with journalists that the city of Arrecife will premiere in the second half of this year four new large buses, which are already in production through a tender that the Arrecife City Council made directly at the end of last year.
Yonathan de León has detailed that citizens will notice a great change in the municipal Urban Bus service over the next few months with the incorporation of up to eight new large buses as a result of an investment of close to 4 million euros.
The mayor of the capital confirms that municipal transport "will take a big turn in this second part of the term", with the City Council maintaining direct management of the service. To this end, to favor the mobility of the more than 71,000 residents in the city, plus the thousands of visitors who come to Arrecife every year. The objective of the City Council, as the mayor remarked, is to "close this 2025 with more than 600,000 passengers".
Arrecife modernizes the urban bus fleet
The Department of Mobility and Transport, led by Councilor Mario González Altube, already has four new large buses in production and will tender another four this summer. During this summer, the Area, led by Councilor Mario González Altube, will convene a new tender for a batch of four large buses powered by electric energy. To this end, the City Council is finalizing the budgetary allocation of treasury surpluses to the 2025 financial year, in order to tender a new acquisition of four buses, in whose file the Department of Mobility and Transport is already working.
González Altube stressed that "the incorporation of these next eight buses, plus the two premiered last December, will allow the City Council to have a modern fleet to greatly improve routes with faster journeys, less waiting times at stops, and expansion of schedules and frequencies between neighborhoods and the city center."
"The councilor has been working intensely to strengthen a better municipal transport service, always under the direct management of the City Council," they conclude from the Consistory.
