Cars already circulate on the Oroteanda branch that connects the South highway with Guargacho, Las Rosas and Las Galletas, among other centers, without having to use the Las Chafiras link. “It is an early commissioning to avoid queues on the shoulder of the highway that is generated these days of holidays and high commercial activity,” explained José Luis Delgado, general director of Road Infrastructure of the Government of the Canary Islands, on social media.
The opening of the branch on the 23rd is the first of the set of roads connected to the Oroteanda junction that will be inaugurated next Thursday, according to the forecasts of the Ministry of Public Works, and that will alleviate the traffic saturation that supports this area of the South. From that roundabout in Oroteanda, four branches (two entrances and two exits) will be connected to the trunk of the highway, a long-awaited work whose results will be seen in 48 hours.
From there, work will intensify at the Las Chafiras junction, where two new roads will link this roundabout with Oroteanda. In this way, the traffic in the area will not be concentrated in the two current roundabouts.
On November 28, circulation was restored on the trunk of the highway at the Oroteanda junction. Traffic had been diverted by an alternative road since August, the month in which the construction of a tunnel under the TF-1 began.
