The candidate of Coalición Canaria for Mayor of the Tías City Council, Amado Vizcaíno, assures that the socialist mayor, José Juan Cruz, “should be ashamed to pose in a photo and talk about improvements in public transport in the municipality when there are towns like Masdache that remain cut off by bus”, and regrets that the southern mayor is unaware that "one of the indicators of quality of life in a municipality is, precisely, public services."
The nationalist spokesperson recalls that "the limited schedule of the internal Tías line still does not respond to its users and that it cannot even cover the needs of people who have to travel for work reasons."
“In June 2021, we proposed urging the Cabildo of Lanzarote to extend the hours of line 34 (Interior of Tías); but the motion was rejected by both the PSOE and the PP, which, being in government together at the time, preferred to ignore the residents of Tías and especially those of Masdache, whom they left completely abandoned”, says Vizcaíno.
And, as the councilor affirms, "the last bus on line 34 is at 10:00 p.m. from Monday to Friday, reducing to 9:00 p.m. on Saturdays and 8:00 p.m. on Sundays and holidays, so going to work in Puerto del Carmen, a tourist town where people work from Monday to Sunday, is unfeasible for any resident in the municipality if they don't have a car.”
The CC candidate also recalls that "until last September, a Mobility Plan for the municipality was not brought to the plenary session, which already had a budget item from the previous term." A Plan that, he insists, “they have made, they have presented, but nothing more. They have not put it into operation. Only applause to the Cabildo for having bought three buses”.
For Vizcaíno it is "more than clear" that the current mayor of Tías “is more concerned with paying homage to the PSOE by publishing regrettable posts on social networks, than with the situation that the residents of Masdache are experiencing, for whom the priority is that there be a bus connection with the town, and they have been waiting for years for the taxi-on-demand service to be launched, as we also requested in 2019 through one of our motions”.
