The Council of Tenerife has ruled out this Thursday launching the ‘Operative Snowfall’ and that a bus circuit be used to access the snow in the Teide National Park after the snowfall recorded this Wednesday at the summit of the island.
This is how they have exposed it to journalists President of the Cabildo, Pedro Martin, and the island director of Highways, Tomás García, who have pointed out that the restrictions imposed by the health pandemic also make it unfeasible to favor the concentration of people.
Martín has assumed that “there will hardly be an ideal solution” since the Las Cañadas highway “has the capacity it has and from 1,500 vehicles it collapses”, apart from the fact that it is a national park and “works cannot be done” to widen the roads .
He has admitted that the buses “are an option”, but aside from health issues, he has indicated that people usually wait for the last buses and “normally” they do not take the midday and early afternoon buses very much, which ” it does not allow to make a system that really works”.
However, he commented that if throughout this Friday the sun begins to act, it will be possible to “open your hand” and allow access – now the climbs through La Esperanza and La Orotava are cut off.
García, for his part, commented that right now there is a lot of ice on the road and “the roads cannot be reopened” so it is not planned to activate the ‘Operative Snowfall’.
