The PSOE in Arrecife, San Bartolomé and Tías showed their rejection of the private platforms Uber or Cabify proposed by the president of the Cabildo, Oswaldo Betancourt, to solve the problem of the shortage of taxis in the port of the capital of Lanzarote and at the airport and requests that both areas be declared sensitive areas.
The Socialist Workers Party estimated in a statement that declaring sensitive areas in the port of Arrecife and the airport would allow the organization of taxi service there after agreement with the sector, and for this reason they refuse to introduce private platforms, as Oswaldo said and Betancourt hinted through statements he made in the local media.
In the opinion of Arrecife’s Socialist Workers’ Party spokesman, Alfredo Mendoza, and the mayors of San Bartolomé and Tías, Isidro Pérez and José Juan Cruz, respectively, “no one disputes that it is necessary to improve taxi service on the island,” but that the solution “involves listening to the sector.” “And agree with taxi drivers on the procedures that should be applied,” which is why they are convinced that the island’s taxi cooperatives “are able to move the service forward without having to do so.” “privatize.”
In this sense, the three socialist representatives received the unanimous support of the island’s executive authority headed by the island’s secretary, María Dolores Corojo, at a meeting in which it was recognized that, as a result of strong tourist demand, at certain times there are waiting queues in the port of Arrecife and at the airport, which leads Turn to “increase in waiting time at many other stations.”
Alfredo Mendoza and mayors Isidro Pérez and José Juan Cruz agree that “there is a need for more taxi licenses in some municipalities” and that all those licenses granted “are starting to work.”
They noted that both issues “must be agreed upon at a table where the sector is heard and the cabildo and town councils are represented.”
On the other hand, the SWP shares the comfort that in some events that see a large influx of the public to the island, such as some festive celebrations, carnivals or saporia, “taxis from other municipalities support the service provided on time in the host city.”
This situation “could move to the port of Arrecife and the airport at exceptional moments and according to the sector.”
The PSOE expressed “no doubt” that taxi professionals “are the first to care about providing quality service to both residents and tourists, avoiding waiting and queues in the port of Arrecife, at the airport or at any station”, but he said and pointed out that in order for taxis to be able The fare other than that of the municipality in which the passenger loading infrastructure is located, “the Cabildo must first declare that they are sensitive areas in terms of transportation.”
In this sense, the Secretary General of the Socialist Workers Party of Lanzarote, Maria Dolores Corojo, believes that the declaration of sensitive areas in the port of Arrecife and the airport in terms of transportation will allow the organization of taxi service in them, regardless of the municipality in which they are registered.
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