Juan Artiles: "For the moment we have managed to stop Uber"

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The president of the Canary Islands regional taxi federation calls for structural reforms to periodically update rates. The president of the regional taxi federation of the Canary Islands, Juan Artiles, affirms that, "for the moment" they have managed to stop "their feet" at the entrance of the Uber company in the Archipelago, and he hopes that in the various conversations with the Government Canarian and central, a definitive solution can be reached that avoids domination of the market by this multinational: "Where Uber enters, grass does not grow." Sentences in favor He points out that they have been studying this matter for a long time and, since last January, with the report of the European Union lawyer, they have intensified their efforts to be prepared for the imminent ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union. It indicates that some municipalities in Tenerife have granted Ares Capital thirty licenses for a mode of transport that is not related to the taxi service, but rather to the rental of high-end cars with drivers.

Artiles points out that there are different sentences in which Uber is required to work in accordance with Canarian law: "In that sense we have managed to stop them." He denies that there are taxi drivers working with Uber, particularly from any of the forty associations that bring together the regional taxi federation of the Canary Islands. Another thing is that some taxi drivers have registered out of Europe Mobile Number List curiosity. The challenges of the taxi He points out that, regardless of the challenge that Uber may pose, Canarian taxi drivers have to face their own problems. In this regard, he recalls that they are an improper public service, in the sense that private companies provide the service through municipal concession. It indicates that taxi drivers are not against regulated rates, but in many situations they are not updated according to the reality of expenses. This is what happens in Telde, Ingenio, Agüimes or Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. This translates into a lack of cars in circulation, because taxi owners do not hire more staff due to high labor costs: "We must go to a tariff system that is updated periodically.



The seismic swarm in Tenerife does not raise concern in the IGN Graph on seismic movements in Canary Islands |  IGN Graph on seismic movements in Canary Islands | IGN Itahiza Domínguez, a seismologist at the National Geographic Institute in the Canary Islands, points out that the origin is not yet known, but the magnitudes do not exceed normal ranges. The seismic swarm registered in Tenerife in recent days does not arouse special concern in the National Geographic Institute in the Canary Islands, according to one of its seismologists, Itahiza Domínguez. "There is no cause for concern," says the technician, who points to the tectonic origin of these movements, the origin of which is currently unknown. He points to the possibility that, between Tenerife and Gran Canaria, movements are taking place due to the expansion of one of the islands and the decrease of another, but for the moment he prefers not to speculate and wait for the results of the research project that is being carried out. conducting. In this regard, Domínguez recalls that the islands already have 75 seismic stations spread across all the islands, a figure that "is not bad at all for a small territory."