The mayor of Adeje, José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga, celebrated yesterday that the Government Council of the Canary Islands has authorized the expenditure of 117.9 million euros until the year 2025 to tender the contracts for the drafting of the project and subsequent execution of the works in the South Highway (TF-1) between Playa de Las Américas and Fañabé, which includes a cut-and-cover tunnel to Miraverde with pedestrian areas and gardens at the top.
For the Alderman of Adeje, it is “great news”, as it is an “essential project to help solve the mobility problems of the South and Tenerife”. In this sense, Rodríguez Fraga stressed that a “historic demand” is being met that will improve the day-to-day life of thousands of drivers who circulate daily along this section of the TF-1, because “it will channel fast traffic through one level and internal traffic for another”.
In addition, the mayor told this newspaper that with this solution “the problem that supposes that a motorway of the current characteristics has become a road for local use that divides our municipality in two and that prevents permeability between the area tourism and the rest of the territory. From the City Council of Adeje it is valued that “it will hardly consume new territory” and the creation of green areas, pedestrian walkways and bike lanes is underlined.
The project consists of burying the TF-1 between Playa de Las Américas and Miraverde, leaving the upper part as a boulevard that will allow traffic to be diverted towards Torviscas, Fañabé and Playa de Las Américas. The cut-and-cover tunnel will begin next to Siam Park and will end shortly before the X-Sur Shopping Center. The action will be carried out on a stretch of almost three kilometers and the works will last 40 months.
Finally, Rodríguez Fraga congratulated the Ministry of Public Works for the formula chosen for the bidding for the project -the drafting and execution of the works are put out to tender at the same time-, which will shorten the deadlines.
