The Cabildo invests 3.5 million in the improvement of road margins

The Cabildo published last February the tender for conservation services and landscape improvement of the green areas of the island roads. They are divided into three lots corresponding to the North, South and Metropolitan areas. The total amount of the contract for three years is 8,122,121 euros.

The northern area was awarded to the joint venture made up of Acciona Medioambiente SAU, Capros 2004 SL and Tagoro Medioambiente SL, for a value of 2,953,611 euros. The one for the southern area, to the joint venture made up of Zona Verde GC SLU and Hardisson Jardinería SL, worth 3,943,545 euros, while the one for the metropolitan area has a tendered budget of 1,224,964 euros and has been awarded to Seanto SL. Roads, continues with the work to improve the island’s green areas. A few days ago these works began on the side of the TF-1, at kilometer point 73,250, at the Playa de Las Américas junction in the municipality of Arona .

The Minister of Roads, Enrique Arriaga, explains: “The objective is to condition the aesthetics and sustainability of the gardens on the margins of the Island’s roads.” Arriaga indicates that “the works planned in Arona comprise an area of ​​more than 15,000 square meters. To carry out these tasks there is a period of two months and a budget of 87,139 euros has been allocated.

Comprehensive performance

In addition, the island director of Highways, Tomás Félix García, details that “an integral shock action is carried out with the elimination of invasive plant species, the clearing and cleaning of surfaces. Likewise, the reclaimed water connection and the installation of the irrigation system for the plantations will be carried out”.

The landscape model that is carried out in the corridor of the TF-1 combines the planting of native species with inert materials such as rough stone that contribute to the containment of the substrate and add volume to the whole. Arriaga explains that the global contract covers a period of three years with more than one and a half million square meters in the North, South and Metropolitan areas.

Enrique Arriaga emphasizes that the purpose of these services is to achieve greater landscape integration of the green areas associated with the island’s road network, giving them character and, in addition, facilitating the subsequent maintenance of surfaces with sustainable resource management. employed in conservation and improvement.

The also insular vice president adds that the Cabildo intends to extend this model of sustainable green areas to the rest of the margins and elements of the roads it manages, given that there are spaces that require landscape improvement, such as landscaped areas that are currently not covered in roundabouts, islets or medians and that are scattered along the road network in metropolitan areas where various services converge.

old and new spaces

The counselor points out that the contract “includes the conservation, improvement and cleaning of green areas in the so-called north and south sectors, new degraded spaces detected in the vicinity of said areas and the creation of a new service in the metropolitan area.” In total, the conservation and landscape improvement of a total of 1,590,404 square meters of surface are included. The South Zone is the largest, with 938,883 square meters, followed by the North Zone, with 533,026. As for the metropolitan area, 118,494 square meters are reached.

The Cabildo highlights efforts in the environmental and landscape integration of the roads it manages under the technical integration criteria in the environmental rehabilitation projects of the roads under the jurisdiction of the Cabildo de Tenerife, approved in 2012.