The Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Housing of the Canary Islands Government announces the competition to draft the project that will provide two lanes to the section of the South highway (TF-1) that runs between Las Manchas (Santiago del Teide) and Erques (Guía de Isora). The bidding budget amounts to 987,687 euros, a is established maximum period of 10 months for its elaboration and the period for submitting offers will expire on the 28th. With this, all the South section of the Insular Ring of Roads It will be configured as a motorway as it has four lanes along its entire route.
Of the 21 kilometers that make up the TF-1 between La Atalaya (Adeje) and Las Manchas, where this road currently ends, the first 6.5 only have four lanes, up to kilometer 87, where the Vera de Erques-Playa San Juan link is located. From here starts the road that leads to Fonsalía and was designed to serve the commercial port that was going to be built in the enclave of Guía de Isora, for freight and passenger traffic with La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro. The rest of the route was conceived and executed as a fast track, so it has two lanes in the direction of Santiago del Teide and another, separated only by a continuous line, towards Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The one formally designated as the Layout and Construction Project called Second Calzada TF-1. Section: Erques-Santiago del Teide is a historic demand of Isoranos and Santiago residents. Their respective city councils raised it, even before the beginning of the construction of the South section of the Insular Ring. In the specific case of Santiago del Teide, the demand was approved on November 29, 2007. Pedro Martín, then mayor of Guía de Isora, put this claim on the table of the Canarian Government in 2016, his partner being the Minister of Public Works. Ornella Chacon party. Claim also made by the business employers of the region and the Island.
With a budget of 988,000 euros and 10 months to draft it, the offer period ends on 28
This action is included in Annex I of the current Agreement between the Ministry of Public Works and the Public Administration of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands on Roads 2018-2027signed on December 22, 2018 and published in the BOC on January 15, 2019.
Six years and two months after the total opening of the southern section of the Insular Ring, Josefa Mesa exclaims that this tender “is great news”, because it responds to the region’s demand that this route “be a highway”. The mayor of Guía de Isora defends that with this lane and the closure of the Insular Ring “traffic on the Island will have better conditions, it will be more accessible and balanced”.
He recognizes that the commissioning of the TF-1 from Armeñime to Santiago del Teide is of great value and contributes to the development of the area, but 14.5 kilometers of single lane and continuous line “conditions the passage of slow vehicles and the possibility of greater fluidity. The Isorana councilor maintains that the fourth lane of the Insular Ring to the South “improves traffic on the Island and in this area that is so important for Tenerife.”
The mayors of the area speak of a relevant work for mobility and traffic safety
Mobility and safety are the two aspects that Emilio Navarro focuses on as elements that reflect the importance of the work that is beginning to be projected by the General Directorate of Road Infrastructure of the regional Executive, managed by José Luis Delgado. “The fourth lane is a demand from the mayors of the South and this contest puts us on the right line to improve conditions in the southwest of the Island.” He remembers that the first approach was formulated before the start of the work, without it being possible to include it in the initial project. “Today it is a necessity taking into account the traffic load that this road has and the insecurity generated by its current situation,” adds the mayor of Santiago del Teide. Navarro values that with this announcement, “the region is in luck.”
The first 21 kilometers
The road between La Atalaya (Adeje) and Las Manchas (Santiago del Teide) is the first 21 kilometers of the Insular Road Ring. In the edition of the Official Bulletin of the Canary Islands (BOC) of October 19, 2006, the award of the works was made public for 167,836,150 euros, with an execution period of 31 months from the beginning of the works, on October 17. April 2007. It was at 12:45 p.m. on December 11, 2015 when the section between Vera de Erques and La Atalaya, in the direction of Adeje, was opened to traffic. This completed the commissioning of part of Tenerife’s road network that improves communication conditions between the North and South of the Island. This section has 19 viaducts, 27 overpasses, 21 underpasses, a tunnel and two false tunnels. The Insular Ring is still under construction between Santiago del Teide and El Tanque.
