The Circle of Entrepreneurs and Professionals of the South of Tenerife (CEST) yesterday conveyed to the general director of Road Infrastructure of the Government of the Canary Islands, José Luis Delgado, its concern about the traffic problems that are generated on the TF-1 at the height of the Guaza Mountain.
“The uphill section, which is very short, needs a solution in the coming months, because we cannot wait for the third rail to be operational,” the president of CEST, Roberto Ucelay, told this newspaper at the end of the meeting.
To put an end to traffic complications in this area, one of the areas with the highest volume of traffic on the entire Island, the business association proposes various measures, including the creation of a third lane through the “adaptation of medians in both directions ” or the elimination in this section of the median “to generate a reversible lane that would be enabled during the morning in the direction of Adeje and, in the afternoon, in the direction of Santa Cruz”.
A third option would be to start the tender for the third lane in the outlined section, pending completion of the rest of the work, although the business group insists that “the best proposal to solve the traffic jams continues to be the tender for the third lane throughout the TF-1”.
Ucelay stressed that the meeting with José Luis Delgado was “with a lot of content and many technical details” and thanked the general director of Road Infrastructure for his explanations, whom he referred to as “a man who knows very well the needs of the South.”
According to the president of the CEST, the meeting also addressed the problems of the Los Cristianos links, which, in his opinion, are “part of the problem because they work very poorly”, and the possibility of establishing a direct route from the link of Playa de Las Américas to gain faster access to the Hospital del Sur, a measure that the business organization considered “very interesting and very useful”.
The current state of the works on the Insular Ring, and especially the construction of the Erjos tunnel, under the Teno massif, was another of the issues addressed at the meeting.
