Seven temporary units of companies (utes) present their offers and choose to build the fourth lane of the Insular Ring to the South. The work will provide a second carriageway to the 14.5-kilometre section of the highway that runs between Las Manchas, in Santiago del Teide, and the Erques ravine, on the geographical border between Guía de Isora and Adeje. It is one more step in an action that responds to the demand of society and the authorities of the Southwest of the Island since the layout of this road through the region was projected.
The Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Housing of the Canary Islands Government will award the drafting of the project at the end of May. The tender budget amounts to 987,687 euros and the work must be completed within a maximum period of 10 months. Once the work has been carried out, the entire southern section of the Insular Road Ring will be configured as a motorway, since it will have four lanes throughout its route.
At the end of May, the task of drafting the project will be awarded for one million and with a 10-month deadline
The one formally designated as the Layout and Construction Project called Segunda Calzada TF-1. Section: Erques-Santiago del Teide is an action included in Annex I of the current Agreement between the Ministry of Development and the Public Administration of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands on Roads 2018-2027, signed on December 22, 2018 and published at the BOC on January 15, 2019.
The 14.5 kilometer section which currently has a single lane to circulate in the Adeje direction, is delimited throughout its layout by a continuous line. Such conditions make it a prone route to generate retentions and insecurity, as users and authorities of the region have exposed. “It conditions the passage of slow vehicles and the possibility of greater fluidity,” explained the mayor of Guía de Isora, Josefa Mesa, a month ago. Added to this is the fact that the new lane “is a necessity, taking into account the traffic load that this road has and the insecurity generated by its current situation,” according to the mayor of Santiago del Teide, Emilio Navarro.
As was considered from the beginning, this road currently has four lanes only in the first 6.5 kilometers, up to 87. At that point the Vera de Erques-Playa San Juan link is located and the road that connects with the isorana coastal town of Fonsalía, projected before the perspective of the commercial port that was going to be built in that enclave, for the traffic of merchandise and passengers with La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro. The rest of the route was executed as a fast track, so it has two lanes in the direction of Santiago del Teide and another towards Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Only the first 6.5 kilometers of the road have four lanes, until the link that leads to Fonsalía
The commissioning of the Insular Road Ring began at 12:45 p.m. on December 11, 2015, at which time the section between Vera de Erques and La Atalaya, in the direction of Adeje, was officially opened to traffic. In addition, the road between La Atalaya (Adeje) and Las Manchas (Santiago del Teide) is the first 21 kilometers of the Ring.
Award of works
In the edition of BOC On 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 April 17, 2007. The total opening of the section improved the communication conditions between the north and the south of the island. Along its route there are 19 viaducts, 27 overpasses, 21 underpasses, a tunnel and two cut-and-cover tunnels.
