The general coordinator of Podemos Canarias, Laura Fuentes, has requested that public transport in the archipelago be free as a way to compensate on the islands for the "train pass", to combat the crisis announced by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, during the State of the Nation Debate.
For this, Laura Fuentes has addressed several ministers and deputies of Unidas Podemos in the Congress of Deputies with the aim that the “important advances in cheaper transport announced by the coalition government” translate in the Canary Islands into the “free bus transport”.
"This measure would give a great respite to families, self-employed workers and SMEs and would allow to definitively promote sustainable mobility models that the archipelago demands with such urgency,” Podemos affirms this Thursday in a statement. This request has occurred after learning about the anti-crisis measures announced by the Government of Spain, which in Podemos Canarias have been received "with satisfaction."
“We are facing the biggest step ever taken by a State Government in favor of public transport, with all that this entails in terms of benefit for people's pockets and the fight against climate change,” says Fuentes.
The free transport passes, announced by the President of the Government last Tuesday, has been described by the purple party on the islands as “politics in capital letters”, and reiterates that the measure must have a “specific translation for the Canary Islands”.
“The geographical reality of the islands is obviously different from that of other territories of the State and this implies that the transport bonus has to be carried out taking into account our singularities,” points out the general coordinator.
In this regard, she proposes an agreement between the island councils and the State that allows financing the totality of the Archipelago's bus passes "and thus advance along the path of social justice and sustainability, which is the only one that will allow us to get out of this crisis in a fair way and protecting families and the productive fabric”, adds Fuentes.
The issue of transport, however, “is not limited to land transport, but the measures must take into consideration those who must use air or sea means to travel.”
Podemos Canarias has recalled the “importance” of any subsidy policy being accompanied by a “necessary price control”, for which it reiterates the “urgency” of declaring the Canary Islands-Peninsula route as a Public Service Obligation (PSO), a claim of the purple party that goes back to 2017.
“In the Canary Islands we know well that subsidizing flights, for example, without previously capping fares, ends up causing a speculative increase in tickets that makes it impossible for our people to travel,” she specifies
