The insular counselor of Roads, Enrique Arriaga, seeks consensus to finally open the two lanes of the TF-333 highway, at the height of La Montaña, in Los Realejos, one of which was closed to traffic in November of 2019 due to the collapse of a piece of privately owned wall, located in front of the El Monasterio restaurant, in the Montaña de El Fraile area.
Arriaga emphasizes that the Cabildo has been working together with the property since April to enable the two traffic lanes and in fact, it already has the consensus of the City Council to be able to do so. Proof of this is that two weeks ago a meeting was called for this Friday with all the parties affected by the work (educational community of the La Pureza school, neighbors and merchants and the City Council, among others) to explain the project that is presented as a solution and the Work calendar.
“The property has been taking tastings, doing stability tests on the ground to develop a project that gives stability to the road and paid for it,” says the first vice president of the Cabildo. Basically, the proposal consists of “maintaining the alignment of the natural space where it was before the work and ensuring that the slope does not collapse through stabilization with micropiles”. In any case, it is a provisional solution until the General Management Plan (PGO) of Los Realejos is approved.
As soon as the City Council authorizes the action, it can begin and in two months it would be finished, although the counselor is not in favor of giving a specific date due to the inconveniences that may arise during the development of the work.
In this sense, he wants to make it clear that the beginning of the same “is independent of the decision taken by the Cabildo to appeal or not the ruling of the Administrative Litigation Court number 2 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife that has given the City Council the reason. of Los Realejos and declares null the stoppage of the work in April of last year by the insular area of Roads ”.
In this regard, he wants to make it “perfectly clear” that it is not a political decision but “strictly technical”. Therefore, he adds, the decision to appeal the sentence or not “is being studied by the legal services of the Cabildo” and what the technicians in this area determine will be respected.
However, it states that the sentence of November 11, 2021 released last Friday by the mayor of the city, Manuel Domínguez, “is of a precautionary suspension of work at the initial moment of the fall of the wall, but this has evolved and there is a later technical report that warns of an imminent risk of collapse “.
Specifically, Arriaga refers to the date of October 2020 that confirmed “the unstable evolution” of the structure “and made it necessary to have a wall that currently does not satisfy it and proposed the demolition of the wall in its entirety”.
Therefore, “even if you want to restore the wall originally, it is no longer valid because the sentence refers to a year earlier and the situation of the wall is no longer the same as when the building license given by the City Council was suspended,” states the island councilor.
