NC proposes to build a bus interchange in Argana Alta

The Canarian nationalists request a shuttle bus that leaves the neighborhood and starts its journey at 6:00 in the morning and a "owl" line on weekends.

November 29 2024 (08:52 WET)
Yoné Caraballo, Sheila Guillén, and Servando Pérez in Argana Alta
Yoné Caraballo, Sheila Guillén, and Servando Pérez in Argana Alta

The deputy for Lanzarote and La Graciosa and island president of Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista (NC-bc), Yoné Caraballo, together with the Spokesperson for the Local Committee of the Canarian nationalists in Arrecife and the local president, Sheila Guillén and Servando Pérez, visited the Argana Alta neighborhood on Thursday afternoon in order to announce a measure they consider “fundamental” to improve public transport and the connectivity of the residents of the neighborhoods.

Thus, they have announced that they have incorporated an amendment to the General Budgets of the Canary Islands for 2025 with the aim of obtaining resources to design a bus interchange in Argana, which will substantially expand the public transport offer and avoid many of the problems that exist today to move around Arrecife and connect with other points of the island such as Puerto del Carmen, Playa Honda or Costa Teguise.

“We are talking about the fact that between Argana Alta, Argana Baja and Maneje there are about 15,000 residents, many of them work in tourist areas or in the center of Arrecife and use public transport daily”, says Caraballo, who sees an anomaly that “such a large population does not have efficient and quality public transport facilities”.

“A bus interchange will project a serious commitment to public transport in the capital and on the island. In addition, it would reinforce the use of people who currently already use it and invite those who do not do so because they consider it inefficient”, says the deputy, who is sure that by offering good infrastructure, adapted schedules, attractive prices and information, many more people would join Lanzarote's public transport”.

 

Shuttle line and owl on weekends

For her part, Sheila Guillén defended an improvement in the frequency of buses between the neighborhoods and the center of Arrecife, since she considers that at present "there are many difficulties to connect with the bus station of the medular and with the Cabildo interchange", in addition to the fact that the schedules "are not adapted to working hours, which makes it difficult for users to arrive on time to their jobs".

“The residents of Argana Alta, Argana Baja and Maneje deserve to have frequent and stable bus lines, and not what exists at present that you don't know if you are going to get to work or not”, says Guillén, who considers it necessary to improve the lines with a “fixed shuttle that leaves from Argana Alta to the bus station, starting its journey at 6:00 in the morning since now there are residents who have to wake up at 4 or 5 in the morning to walk to the station”.

On the other hand, she considers it necessary to establish an “owl”/night line on weekends, since there are residents of the neighborhoods who work at night, go out for leisure to the center or other towns in Lanzarote and are without public transport to get to their homes, being forced to walk or take the car”.

With everything, from NC-bc they hope that the amendments to the Canarian budgets for 2025 that they have filed for Lanzarote, which amount to 14,035,000 euros, will be accepted by the groups that support the Government (CC and PP), to correct some accounts that they consider that "strengthen a discriminatory treatment" to the “yellow islands” (Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and La Graciosa).

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