The Cabildo de Tenerife has ruled out this Thursday launching the so-called Snowfall Operation and that a bus circuit be used to access the snow in the Teide National Park after the snowfall recorded since Wednesday at the summit of the island.
All accesses to Teide closed while snowplows and operators remove the ice from the tracks
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This has been stated by the president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, and the insular director of Highways, Tomás García, who have indicated 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 carried out” 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” the midday and early afternoon ones are not taken much, which ” does not allow to make a system that really works”.
However, he has commented that if the sun begins to act throughout this Friday, it will be possible to “open his 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 Snowfall Operation.
