The municipalist formation Primero Teguise has criticized in a press release issued this Thursday the decision of the transport councilor of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, at the request of the municipal mayor's office, "that establishes a joint provision for the entire island, for Sundays at the flea market."
“It is unacceptable that without reaching an agreement with the taxi sector in the municipality, agreeing on the way in which said joint provision could be given, this action is requested and decreed, which has been taking place since last Sunday and until the last of this year”, criticized the PTG councilor, Jonás Álvarez.
And, according to the political formation, "the sector's own cooperative in the municipality has expressed its disagreement with this joint provision, under the terms proposed by the council and at the request of the city council", since the proposal of the taxi drivers of the municipality was to request the help of other taxi drivers on the island "in case of need". Then, "the central office would call on the other cooperatives, as well as the rest of the municipalities that make up said cooperative, in which Teguise is included, requesting support."
Álvarez highlighted that the taxi drivers "have not been heard and last Sunday, the first of this joint provision, the sector has seen how no control has been carried out with respect to the liberalization of the service and complaints from the sector have increased."
“Time has proven us right”, commented Álvarez, “when we have been saying for more than a year that Teguise needed more municipal licenses from the sector and when we have asked that the sector be taken much more seriously, and the rates have not yet been updated nor has the promised loading and unloading zone been created.”
In the words of the Primero Teguise councilor, “you cannot act on the spur of the moment and without making any type of forecast about the influx to the event every Sunday, knowing the low tourist numbers these months. An action like this cannot be done without studies, forecasts and without sitting at a table with the sector, because in the end what is at stake is the work of many people”, concluded Jonás Álvarez.
