The Cabildo of Gran Canaria has put on public display the list of land owners that will be expropriated for the construction of the Gran Canaria train, which even includes wind power. This November, the period for examining the file is open in the municipalities of Agüimes, Santa Lucía de Tirajana and San Bartolomé de Tirajana.
If your soil is affected, the project and study in: https://descargas.grancanaria.com/transportes/ferrocarril_grancanaria. In March 2022, the president of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, Antonio Morales, demanded that the Government of the Canary Islands and the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda "urgently" provide the necessary financing to launch the train works on the island. . In a statement, the insular Corporation indicated that with this objective, it has sent two letters in which it states that "a very fragile territory protected by its environmental values" such as Gran Canaria does not allow more lanes to continue being built on existing roads. nor new roads since it would involve very intense consumption of land, the most scarce and valuable resource we have.
Furthermore, Morales stressed that the island has one of the highest population densities in the European Union, as well as one of the highest motorization rates - number of vehicles per 1.000 inhabitants - in the world.
