The Tinajo City Council has rescued the idea of moving the Timanfaya National Park parking lot to Mancha Blanca. It will urge the Cabildo to do so through a motion that was approved unanimously by the Consistory's plenary session this Wednesday, as explained by the PSOE councilor in the municipality, Nicanor Rodríguez.
Removing the parking lot from the park to end the car queues in Timanfaya is an old debate in which the Cabildo had positioned itself in recent years to locate it in the Chinero area, which belongs to the municipality of Yaiza. The mayor of Tinajo even showed himself willing to give up the parking lot in his municipality, but only if it received compensation, either through an increase in the fee paid by the Tourist Centers or through investments.
Now, however, seeing that the matter "has been forgotten", the plenary session of the Tinajo City Council has recovered the proposal that it be located in Los Dolores and from there tourists are transferred to the park in shuttle buses. And, according to the PSOE councilor in Tinajo, Nicanor Rodríguez, this would give "life" to the agricultural market of Mancha Blanca, "which does not work", and also to the municipality. "Yaiza should understand that they live from tourism and Tinajo barely has any income", Rodríguez pointed out.
The PSOE councilor hopes that, just as all political parties have supported this motion in Tinajo, they will also do so in the Cabildo to, at least, "try to see if it works" - "Everyone has to see that Tinajo is not a tourist municipality", Nicanor Rodríguez insisted.
