The mayor of Arona, José Julián Mena, considers “Inalienable” port-city lace for Los Cristianos. “Without the need to expand” the dock, it defends a direct underground route from Chayofita Avenue to almost the highway – at the height of El Mojón – as a solution to the chaos that the general port activity in the town has. He advocates this proposal as alternative to the port of Fonsalía (Guía de Isora), which “would generate irreparable damage and is an unsustainable project.”
During the past mandate, the Arona City Council and the Cabildo addressed “an approach of port-city integration, which is inalienable and which, without the need to expand the first, contemplated solutions for mobility in and out of Los Cristianos, as well as an urban modernization ». It is there where the underground of the avenida Chayofita avenue is included until reaching (almost) the TF-1 ”, so that the current road“ would remain like a great boulevard with a transport interchange ”.
Mena maintains that his proposal can be materialized “with an investment of less than 40 million euros, key for Los Cristianos and well below 200 for Fonsalía”, in the heart of the Special Conservation Area (ZEC), with a great richness and biodiversity of its environment and one of only three in the world considered a Whale Heritage Site. Another argument that leads him to express his disagreement with the construction of the Isorano port.
Lcurrent reports and studies, the commitment to the ecological transition and «the paradigm shift that the pandemic is assuming, it is a mistake to remain in a position of extreme defense of Fonsalía ». The mayor of Arona calls to “listen, participate, reflect and learn” in the face of the rejection that this work causes in “a very important part of society, parties, organizations and the community itself. University of La Laguna, which has presented some enlightening allegations. ‘ To this he adds the “doubts about the procedure for the environmental impact statement approved by Cotmac in 2014” and the “contrary report” from the Ministry of Ecological Transition for the same reasons. In his position contrary to the port of Fonsalía, Mena refers to the road that this work entails, which “would irreversibly damage the agricultural uses of the area.”
After highlighting that “it would be the fifth port in only 25 kilometers of coastline (Los Cristianos, Puerto Colón, Playa San Juan and Los Gigantes) and the sixth (in the region), if we add to the account that of Granadilla”, he assures that the work requires “pouring 3.8 million cubic meters of materials into the sea.”
