The Cabildo of Lanzarote summons the island's town councils to evaluate the coverage that the taxi sector offered in the different municipalities during the holidays.
The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, will summon the island's town councils to evaluate the coverage that the taxi sector offered this Christmas at the municipal and island level after the resolution agreed in December that established an exceptional service during the holidays.
“The objective is that the next time a joint provision is decreed, it will be effective and coordinated to the maximum by each municipality in favor of the highest possible quality of public interest service on special dates,” says Betancort, urging all municipal representatives of Lanzarote to implement the agreed measures and guarantee an adequate service to citizens and visitors in these exceptional cases.
“The Cabildo's will is to help all the town councils with the means at our disposal so that the services that are decreed at the island level, as was the case in the period between December 22, 2024 and January 7, 2025, are not affected by a lack of monitoring and coordination by the town councils, which are responsible for supervising the service,” adds the president, emphasizing that “the purpose of the resolution issued by the Transportation Area, which coordinates Domingo Cejas, on December 19, was to establish a joint and exceptional provision of the taxi service on the island to ensure that no strategic point, as well as any island area, was left unattended.”
The signed resolution was the result of a meeting held between the Cabildo, led by the Minister of Transportation himself, as well as the municipal representatives responsible for the Transportation areas of each municipality and the island's taxi cooperatives. At that meeting, all parties showed their commitment to ensuring that taxi drivers could operate between municipalities, thus offering an effective response to the high demand typical of the Christmas season.
However, Cejas considers, “this spirit of collaboration was not transferred to reality, which resulted in many users, both residents and tourists, being unattended at key moments, especially in strategic and high-demand areas,” added Cejas, who has received many complaints from the population in different parts of the island.
The Cabildo of Lanzarote, presided over by Oswaldo Betancor, reaffirms its commitment to improving island transport and will summon the mayors of the island to work together on solutions to avoid situations such as the one experienced this Christmas. However, the Cabildo will study "additional measures to improve the coordination and planning of essential services such as public taxi transport, with the aim of preventing new deficiencies in the future."
