The national secretary general of CC and candidate for the presidency of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, demanded yesterday in Puerto de la Cruz the canarian government and to the Island Council to act so that the North recovers its economic leadership and resolves historical problems such as the queues of the TF-5. Clavijo lamented that the problem of mobility on the island remains unresolved “because all the projects that sought to promote more efficient public transport, to compete with private vehicles, have been paralyzed and precious time has been wasted.” The CC deputy and candidate for the Presidency of the Tenerife Council, Rosa Dávila affirms that “citizens cannot be told to wait until 2028. They have paralyzed the Cabildo with its disastrous management of transport, which has further collapsed traffic. It’s a pretty defeatist start to the campaign. How are they going to say that there are no alternatives until 2028? We will have to work and focus on public transport.
The former island president Carlos Alonso (CC) understands that Arriaga’s statements are “the recognition of the failure of his management in these three and a half years, in which nothing has been advanced to resolve the traffic jams on the TF-5. They stopped the drafting of the VAO Bus lane project, which is more than three years late, and this does not surprise me because the PSOE had already been against it. Nor have they tendered the third rail and the improvement of links between Guamasa and Los Rodeos due to the opposition of the Canarian Government. The variant of the TF-5 behind the airport has many technical problems, and this is what the college of engineers and the technical services of the Cabildo say in a report from the Highways area that we have requested since July and are still waiting for ». He regrets that “the park and ride on the side of the TF-5 have not been continued either”, and states that “it is shown that those who came to solve the problem of the queues in a short time, blame others and they put the solution in the very long term. Something unacceptable. That is why I ask for the resignation of the island’s responsible for Highways, Mr. Arriaga, and the president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, who in this matter has only reaped delays and failures. For Alonso, it is critical that in this mandate “health decentralization processes have also been abandoned or the reorganization of schedules for merchandise traffic or the University of La Laguna».
