The collective No incineration Tenerife has branded this Tuesday as “major brand nonsense” the La Laguna bypass project, with a cost of 355 million and a layout of six kilometers and six lanes, three in each direction.
The La Laguna bypass will extend for six kilometers and will have an investment of 355 million
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In a statement it details that this project will mean a delay of “20 years” in the objective of changing the paradigm of mobility on the island which, “today, is close to one car per inhabitant, a crazy figure that occurs in very few places of the world”, in line with what was defended by the councilor of United You Can in the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Ramón Trujillo.
Thus, he denounces that the cost of the work reaches 60,000 euros per meter and on top of that “they brag about it because they say that it is the way to preserve the houses and the rustic land because the work goes through the subsoil”, which will increase the energy cost keep it light and ventilated.
As an example, he states that the cost of the southern train, valued at 2,200 million, represents 27,500 euros per meter, less than half.
In addition, it indicates that “the most terrible thing is the level of botchedness” of the project because the recently completed roundabout of Lora and Tamayo inaugurated a few months ago will disappear since a “giant roundabout” would be built on the trunk of the TF-5.
Likewise, they comment that the underground diversion of the La Esperanza highway upon arrival at Padre Anchieta that is currently being executed “completely loses its meaning” as well as the “giant” pedestrian walkway, works that represent another 17 million euros ” to the rubbish bin.”
“Regardless of whether Ascanio and Santiago Pérez – councilors of La Laguna – understand that it is good because potatoes can be thrown over the false tunnel, the truth is that there is no mobility plan, there is no objective of reducing private traffic and in truth with 355 million invested in bus lanes could undoubtedly turn this around,” he says.
He even points out that it could be buried along the current route by making the necessary provisional detours, “but the shots do not go that way because the thing is the multimillion-dollar budget, although, like this one, it is only a matter of moving the problem a little further down or a little higher, neither more nor less”.
