The Canary Islands Government wants to put the direct with the highway of the South. The Minister of Public Works, Sebastián Franquis, reported yesterday in Parliament that the drafting of all the projects to build a third lane of the TF-1 for each direction they will be awarded in September, “before the end of the summer”.
These are three sections that add up to 55 kilometers between Güímar and Playa de Las Américas, which will extend the widening of the main southern traffic artery to 80 kilometers, after completing the 24-kilometer stretch between Santa Cruz and Güímar in 2009. The forecast of the Ministry is that in March the drafting of the projects will be completed.
The Ministry has already put out to tender, for 1,955,632 euros, the drafting of the project for the layout and construction of the Güímar-San Isidro section; the drafting of the Oroteanda-Playa de Las Américas project (for 549,114 euros), a 9-kilometre section through which up to 90,000 vehicles circulate daily; and the drafting of the Playa de Las Américas-Fañabé project and work (6,707,117 euros), which will include a cut-and-cover tunnel with a boulevard at the top and four roundabouts that will connect the two sides of the tourist areas. Next week the drafting of the project between San Isidro and Oroteanda (505,460 euros) will also be put out to tender.
In addition, in the San Isidro-Las Américas section, machines and workers continue to work on the future Oroteanda-Las Chafiras link, a 28-million-euro work that has already exceeded 45% of its execution and whose completion is expected at the beginning of 2023 to end one of the great traffic funnels in the southern part of the Island.
“With the planning of the third lane of the TF-1, we are going to expand the capacity of almost the entire South highway, at least in its most populated and most frequented nuclei,” Sebastián Franquis stated in the Regional Chamber, who recalled that ” Along this road, the most important growth of the Island has taken place from the tourist, commercial and industrial point of view, which has not been consistent with the growth of the TF-1”. For this reason, he described its expansion to the South as “essential”. The councilor highlighted the “impulse given in the last three years to these projects, planning the actions, because it is impossible to do a work without first having the projects”.
