Enrique Arriaga, first vice president of the Cabildo and councilor for Roads, advanced yesterday in Onda Tenerife that “the first Bus-HOV in the Canary Islands will be operational in January in one of the three lanes that link Arafo with Santa Cruz de Tenerife”; For now, only in that sense. This lane will be used for buses, taxis and vehicles with two or more passengers. To this end, “the project is practically done so that they can deliver it to us and we hope to be able to put it out to tender as soon as possible so that it comes into operation at the beginning of the year. We are already doing the tests with the lights, especially with the constant passage of the buses. The only problem could be in the lane near the Santa Cruz cemetery, but otherwise the works are not complicated.
Regarding the solution to the traffic jams at the roundabout of the Valle de Güímar Industrial Estate, Arriaga confirmed that “we are going to create two fast relief lanes, but later we will work on two links from the El Socorro bridge and on another when coming from Santa Cruz, rolling the current bridge that goes nowhere about 800 meters, because it does not comply with the regulations, so that vehicles do not have to enter the roundabout and directly access the TF-1 or the Polígono. That area has become a mousetrap, a situation that occurred when four commercial areas were built there, which have been licensed by the Arafo City Council, because each one of them, due to its capacity, does not carry a mobility plan associated with each one. of the surfaces, that what they have done is collapse the area”.
Arriaga considers that “these are works with little money and with two months of execution, which solve a serious problem that we have in that area.”
Regarding the announcement of the asphalting of the road that connects the highway with El Puerto de Güímar, he pointed out that “we are going to resurface the TF-61 road from the TF-1 to El Puertito, it is not a patch, but a need to rehabilitate a section that has been without action for 40 years”. About the project to make a boulevard on that road, Arriaga commented that “the agreement needs to be signed with the Güímar City Council so that it takes charge of the pavement and lighting, as it should.”
