The counselor of ecological transitionFight against Climate Change and Territorial Planning of the Government of the Canary Islands, Jose Antonio Valbuena Alonso (PSOE)considers that La Laguna variantdesigned to help divert part of the traffic that collapses every morning the north highway (TF-5), is “a necessary work because it will obviously help reduce the influx of vehicles on the TF-5 right in the Los Rodeos airport areawhich is where the vehicles coming from the north of the island and those coming from La Laguna meet”.
“That project is currently in the process of environmental evaluation, its plan already had it and regarding the project it must be done. Y we hope to finish it as soon as possible”, Valbuena pointed out in statements this Friday to Cadena Ser. His department received this project in the past month of july and explained that “every effort is being made and to be made with the objective that that environmental impact statement can be issued in the shortest possible time and it can be tendered.
The regional manager stresses that this project to build a new road “It is currently a priority for the environmental impact service of the Government of the Canary Islands”.
“All the efforts that have been and will be made are being made with the objective that the environmental impact statement can be issued in the shortest possible time and can be put out to tender”
The College of Civil Engineers, Canals and Ports has shown its discrepancies with respect to the project of the variant of the Northern highway (TF-5) as it is proposed, and understands that it would not be a solution to the queues. In May, they made allegations about this road, also called splitting or bypass, consisting of a highway that borders the airport from Guamasa to Lora and Tamayo. The expected cost is around 400 million euros and would mean at least 200 expropriations.
This group of specialists demand that the route be analyzed and the grade level of the tunnels, links and branches be modified “adapting to current regulations”; that the project be adapted to the current island planning (the Tenerife Island Planning Plan and the Special Territorial Plan for the Planning of the Road System of the Metropolitan Area of Tenerife), and that the link to the future Outer Way in a next phase, incorporating into the project all the necessary elements to carry out this junction, «so that it can be developed in a simple way in the future without this action being compromised». There are three more aspects that the engineers question: that the connections with the TF-5 be reviewed to allow the future connection with the HOV-bus, that a traffic study be included in the project and that a cost study be carried out. infrastructure benefit.
In a 16-page report of allegations, signed by the dean Luis Alberto Painterit is collected that the proposal made “does not comply with the global vision of the road scheme raised in an insular way, but focuses on a linear solution for a specific road, contravening what is stated in the PIOT by not connecting the TF-5 with the TF-1, and compromising this possibility in the future». In addition, the College of Engineers understands that the traffic problem is being transferred “towards Santa Cruz.”
