The Mayor of Mogán, Onalia Bueno, and the Councillor for Traffic and Transport, Víctor Gutiérrez, have handed out ten new taxi licences, five conventional and another five for vehicles for people with reduced mobility (PRM). The municipality has a total of 183 licences.
The licences, whose award was approved in the plenary session last July, represent for Gutiérrez an “improvement of the public transport service in the municipality and the attention given to citizens”. The PMR licences in particular also represent progress in facilitating and ensuring more inclusive access to an essential service for urban mobility. Before their creation, 6 licences were mandatory for PMR and another 9 were voluntary, meaning that the owners of the vehicles decided to adapt them to be able to serve people with reduced mobility. Therefore, the municipality will have a total of 20 PMR licences.
The successful bidders have been given the certificate with the corresponding license number, one of the documents required to process the transport card at the Cabildo de Gran Canaria. The councillor explained that many vehicles will be on the road in service before the end of the year and the rest, mainly those with PMR, in spring 2025, since, as they are adapted vehicles, the delivery time is expected to be extended by a few more months.
After the event, the mayor shared with the taxi drivers and other local government councillors present a breakfast offered by the student-workers of the El Frangollo Alternating Employment Training Programme (PFAE), made up of fifteen residents who are training to obtain professional certificates in Bar-Cafeteria Services and Restaurant Service with funding from the Canarian Employment Service and the Mogán Town Hall.
