The Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Housing of the Canary Islands Government take a decisive step to complete the closure of the Insular Ring in the south of Tenerife by awarding the drafting of the project to build the fourth lane of the highway between Santiago del Mount Teide and Guia de Isora. Specifically, the second lane along 14.5 kilometers in the direction of the Isorano municipality. Omicron OHS Evalua and the Executive will sign the contract this month by which in 10 months -the maximum period- it must present the project, whose preparation has been awarded for 700,065 euros, which is equivalent to a reduction of around 29% (-287,621 euros) with respect to the budget of the tender, 987,687 euros.
Omicron is a temporary union of companies that make up Civil Works Consulting OHS Engineering SLP, Omicron Amepro SA and Evalua Environmental Solutions SL. It surpassed the remaining five UTEs that competed by 0.75 points, according to the evaluation report prepared by the Contracting Committee.
With the formal name Drafting of the layout and construction project called the second road TF-1. Section: Erques-Santiago del Teide, the action is included in Annex I of the 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.
Fonsalia.
The southern section of the Insular Ring consists of 21 kilometers, the distance that separates the area of La Atalaya (Adeje) with the town of Las Manchas (Santiago del Teide), the point where the TF-1 currently ends. It so happens that it only has four lanes in the first 6.5 kilometers of the new route, right up to 87, where the link called Vera de Erques-Playa San Juan, commonly known as the Fonsalía link, is found, in an allusion to the Isorana town where the construction of a commercial port for the traffic of goods and passengers with La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro was projected.
From this point, the highway maintains two lanes in the rest of its route until Las Manchas, in a southerly direction. However, the 14.5 kilometers of this section, but in the opposite direction (towards Adeje), only have one lane, although its execution was carried out with the provision of providing this expressway with a fourth lane. A continuous line separates this lane from the other two along the route, an aspect that draws the attention of users and authorities.
Claim.
The mayor of Guía de Isora and her counterpart from Santiago del Teide, Josefa Mesa (PSOE) and Emilio Navarro (PP), respectively, have been repetitive in demanding this work, for which they expressed their support for the call for the contest to promote its realization. The demand for this route dates even from the time of negotiations between the administrations to define the layout of the Insular Ring, in the period between centuries.
Mayors such as Santiagueses Pancracio Socias and Juan Damián Gorrín, as well as Pedro Martín from Isora, put on the table of the regional Executive the need to provide this road with a fourth lane. In the specific case of Santiago del Teide, the demand was approved on November 29, 2007. Pedro Martín, then mayor of Guía de Isora, transferred it back to the Canarian Government in 2016, with his party colleague Ornella being Minister of Public Works Chacon. Claim also made by the business employers of the region and the Island. The argument used by the regional Executive to postpone the fourth lane was the lack of funding.
The South section.
The road between La Atalaya (Adeje) and Las Manchas (Santiago del Teide) is the first 21 kilometers of the Insular Road Ring. In the edition of the Official Bulletin of the Canary Islands (BOC) of October 19, 2006, the award of the works amounting to 167,836,150 euros was made public, with an execution period of 31 months from the start of the work, which It took place on April 17, 2007. However, nine years elapsed until at 12:45 p.m. on December 11, 2015, the section between Vera de Erques and La Atalaya, in the direction of Adeje, was opened to traffic. With that The commissioning of part of the Tenerife road network was completed, which improves communication conditions between the north and south of the island. This section has 19 viaducts, 27 overpasses, 21 underpasses, a tunnel and two false tunnels.
The complicated is in the North
The closure of the Insular Ring has two sections pending whose works have not even started: seven kilometers that separate the end of the TF-5 in Los Realejos and San Juan de la Rambla and the new road between San Juan de la Rambla and Icod de los Wines, through La Guancha. The Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (BOC) published on November 11, 2021 the start of the process of public exposure and information to the administrations, entities and people interested in this long-awaited project, whose cost is estimated at 175 million. It will be a four-lane dual carriageway south of the current TF-5. The project has been drafted since 2007 and its update was contracted by the Regional Ministry at the beginning of 2021. If the forecasts of the Government of the Canary Islands are fulfilled, the action could begin to be executed before the end of the mandate and without major effects on traffic, since that practically the entire route is newly built, further from the sea than the current TF-5 and with three tunnel sections, the cost of which exceeds 48 million euros. San Juan de la Rambla rejects him. The Los Realejos-San Juan de la Rambla section is still without a date, layout or project, which affects an area with special environmental sensitivity.
