With Resistiré in the background, the song that accompanied the first year of the pandemic or with an adaptation of Del barco de Chanquete they won’t move us, the residents of La Rambla demonstrated yesterday for the first time in front of the headquarters of the Presidency of the Government, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, to demand a safe entry and exit to this nucleus of San Juan de la Rambla, a point with a high concentration of accidents.
About 50 neighbors, accompanied and supported by several councilors from the government group, insisted that this black point of the TF-5 “has a solution” and that they, in the meantime, until it is found, “will resist”. And they will do it their way, protesting, demonstrating and making themselves heard.
Yesterday they did it with cauldron lids, cowbells, drums, whistles and banners, any element was valid to expose a claim that has been going on for more than 42 years.
However, no political representative approached or received them, assured the spokeswoman for the Todos con La Rambla platform, Adela Abreu Chávez.
“The entrance and exit to the neighborhood has a safe solution, that they look for it,” he snapped. Specifically, he referred to the possibility of finding a provisional alternative to what is already the definitive action: the construction of an underpass, a section that runs under the road or motorway and that will guarantee that on the one hand there is no crossing of vehicles, and on the other, that pedestrians, hikers and users of public transport can safely cross the TF-5 motorway.
Because this project is long-term, on February 13, when they had a meeting at the Cabildo de Tenerife, “those responsible for the Roads area undertook to find an alternative to turning towards Santa Cruz as a provisional solution. But a month has passed and there has been no response of any kind. What’s more, they have continued to make bus stops,” the spokeswoman recalled.
This Sunday, due to bureaucratic reasons, the caravan that has been organizing since the beginning of February and that leaves at 12:00 noon from the neighborhood mill under a banner that reads: ‘For a safe entry and exit to the Rambla’ will not be held.
Next Tuesday the platform has called a new meeting to agree on the measures to be adopted from now on. A few weeks ago, given the lack of response, those affected warned that “they will not stop until they see movement or shovels starting the works.”
