In Las Palmas they are fighting because the PSOE wants to take political advantage of Global, the transport company that in the south of the island has always been called Salcai. The local government coalition that rules in Maspalomas has on the table a document from the time of the previous government group of 2022 and prepared by the University of Las Palmas (ULPGC) where it is clear that it is necessary to have its own local transport company or put its own lines out to tender. In Las Palmas they are not fighting for the Teror-Las Palmas lines but for the Maspalomas-Airport or Las Palmas-Maspalomas-Las Palmas lines. In other words: the most profitable ones are in the south of Gran Canaria, such as Playa del Inglés-Arguineguín.
I already said ite a 2022 municipal report on municipal transport business with "the creation of the public transport route in a circular route covering the bus stops between Faro-Campo Internacional-San Fernando de Maspalomas-Tablero-El Salobre". The Maspalomas Taxi Cooperative was once tempted to create a municipal transport company that would provide quality mobility for people in the south, which is in such high demand in areas where tourism workers reside. But San Bartolomé de Tirajana has never used its powers.
The PSOE during the time of Mayor Narváez made a document because the urban transport service within what is San Bartolomé de Tirajana is a disaster. Those people from Las Palmas take money from the south of the island to finance transport in the rest of Gran Canaria. ignoring Monte León, Ayagaures, El Salobre, the upper part of the Tablero. "There is no urban bus service, the municipality being supplied only by the interurban Global service," says the report, which adds: "traffic congestion due to the large size of the buses hinders motorized traffic, mainly on urban roads.".
The public transport offer in San Bartolomé de Tirajana currently consists of 26 lines of the company Salcai, an intercity transport company, which operate and cross the municipality connecting the entire Southeast community and the capital of Las Palmas. The municipality has a large coverage of bus stops, "some accessible and others that do not comply with accessibility regulations such as the preferential stop at the Maspalomas Lighthouse and the preferential stop at the Tropical Park," said the 2022 municipal report.
These stops supply the most central areas of the municipality, "However, they do not meet the demands of people who need to take the bus at certain times. There is no coordination between the needs of citizens and the public transport offer, therefore, these lines transport a small number of passengers." says the report from the Narváez era. Among the objectives set by the council is the regulation of on-street parking through Limited Parking Zones (ZEL), together with promoting public transport by improving frequencies, routes and platforms reserved for buses and taxis.
