The mayor of Candelaria, Mari Brito and the mayor of Arafo, Juan Ramón Martín, met yesterday with the general director of Road Infrastructure of the Government of the Canary Islands, José Luis Delgado, to unblock the completion of the bridge that connects the TF-1 highway with the Valle de Güímar Industrial Park and alleviate the collapse that has been created in the roundabout at the entrance to it and the municipality of Arafo, by locating there, among other infrastructures, three large commercial areas.
It is the bridge located between the Polígono Valle de Güímar and the Lomo del Caballo and Icerse on the TF-1 highway and just 100 meters from the roundabout at the entrance to the Polígono and El Carretón, on Araferian soil. A roundabout that for months has created a real funnel with traffic jams that end up causing insecurity in the TF-1 itself, when the entrance deceleration lane collapses.
According to Juan Ramón Martín, the general director “undertook to present between September and October a preliminary draft of the auxiliary or collector roads necessary to access the bridge, both upstream and downstream”, and from there put it into operation, to do so. that it will be necessary to “fight” for financing in the next Budget of the autonomous community, explained Martín.
The Arafero mayor said he left the meeting “extremely happy”, because at least “José Luis Delgado understood that right now we have a problem of collapse at the entrance and exit of the Polígono”, and that the solution is to divert traffic through those roads that connect the bridge.
In November 2003, the works began to expand the TF-1 highway to six lanes (three in each direction) between the south of Santa Cruz and kilometer 20,400 (link to the Industrial Park), to support the 100,000 vehicles that daily use this section . The TF-1 began in 1974 and was completed in Adeje in the 90s until the beginning of the so-called insular ring, still without completion.
On April 13, 2007, the six lanes in the seven-kilometer section between Las Caletillas and Arafo came into service, including three new bridges and a pedestrian walkway, located in Candelaria, thus concluding the first phase of the work. However, the Polígono and Punta Larga bridges – this one is now intended to be only pedestrianized – were placed on the road, but the accesses were not completed, despite the 14 million euros planned for this in 2006.
