The Cabildo de Tenerife Highway area is about to complete the construction of the Chayofa roundabout on the general highway of the South (TF-28). It is an infrastructure that will give access to the urban center of the same name located in the municipality of Arona in a faster and safer way. The resulting roundabout has an exterior radius of 20 meters and is designed to regulate the traffic of a daily average estimated at 19,000 vehicles.
With it, one of the traditional black spots for traffic and pedestrians on the Aronera road network will be eliminated, fulfilling a historical requirement of the residents of this town. In fact, in the place that the roundabout now occupies, 17 accidents have been recorded in the last 5 years, some of them resulting in death for some of those involved.
The Island Councilor for Roads, Enrique Arriaga, visited this infrastructure in which the Corporation has invested 418,292 euros, together with the Mayor of Arona, José Julián Mena; the councilor for Security, Francisco Marichal, and the insular director of Highways, Tomás Félix García.
Arriaga stressed that “the Cabildo, throughout this mandate, has worked to eliminate black spots on the island’s roads and an example is the construction of this Chayofa roundabout, which will be operational in mid-October.” The also vice president of the Institution includes in that list the roundabout that will be built shortly in the town of Guargacho, whose purpose is also “to help improve circulation in the Arona coast area.”
The island councilor maintains that in the government of the Cabildo “we are intervening decisively in the island’s roads, not only rehabilitating the pavements, but also providing solutions that contribute to making traffic flow and that result in the safety of users.”
historical demand
In the case of the work that is about to be completed on the TF-28 at Chayofa, the mayor of Arona, José Julián Mena, explains that the construction of the roundabout “responds to a historic demand by thousands of people who circulate daily on the general highway, as well as the inhabitants of the Chayofa area, who did not have easy access to the urbanization.
Around 2,000 people currently reside in Chayofa, in a nucleus in which there are various facilities and public services, all of this on the side of one of the main highways, the TF-28, the busiest on the island.
Mena recalls that, “until now, the road was a black mark for those who accessed Chayofa by turning from the main road so as not to have to go up to La Camella, in the same way that it will allow them to change direction on a a much simpler way, improving mobility in the area».
In this meeting, the Councilor for Roads of the Cabildo de Tenerife and the mayor of Arona shared other important interventions for the municipality, of which the island government assures, in an official statement, that “they have already been planned and that they will be underway in the coming months.
