The candidate of the Canarian Coalition for the Mayor of Yaiza, Emilio Machín, asks the Cabildo of Lanzarote to look for all the alternatives that are necessary "so that the residents of the different towns in the south of the island can travel by public transport just like the rest", and asks the mayor that, together with the Councilor for Transportation, pressure the first institution.
“It is time to put more force into this issue that is so important for our residents and not to wait and see what happens in the coming months. It is one of the biggest demands and needs of our municipality and we cannot stand idly by until the pilot project of on-demand taxi service for the towns in the south can be launched in 2023,” says Machín, adding that, “although it is true that there is barely a month and a half left to finish this year, what we do not know is in which month of the next this initiative will start”.
Initiative that, however, he considers insufficient since said service will not reach localities such as La Degollada. “What the south really needs is a bus line that connects with the island's capital and that the current schedules are reinforced so that, for example, the towns of Femés and Las Breñas are better connected than now”.
Machín recalls that this situation affects other towns in the municipality such as Playa Quemada and recalls that 70% of the people who reside in El Golfo work in Playa Blanca, and that the lack of adequate public transport is a real problem when having to travel daily to their jobs.
“We are going to continue demanding that a solution be put to this problem and we are going to continue giving voice to some residents who feel ignored by the institutions”, emphasizes Machín.
Residents who, for example, recalls the also Secretary of Organization of the Local Committee “will not be able to benefit from the free buses that our deputies have worked so hard to achieve, simply because the Cabildo does not make available to them a line that runs through the towns of the municipality”.
Machín, emphasizes that “adequate public transport is essential both so that our residents can exercise the same right to mobility as the residents of the rest of the municipalities, and so that our towns have the possibility of developing economically”.