The Insular Committee of Nueva Canarias (NC) in Tenerife proposes the creation of a bus-vao lane, which has three multimodal interchanges for taxis, buses and tram, as one of the most effective solutions that can be implemented to contribute to the fluidity of traffic and the elimination of queues that form daily on the Northern highway (TF-5).
The Canarian formation of progress proposed a technical meeting to analyze this problem that affects tens of thousands of Tenerife and that has become one of the headaches of the citizenry. For this reason, the Secretary of Territorial Implantation of NC, Valentín Correa, does not hesitate to defend the implementation of a bus-vao lane “that connects the valley of La Orotava and that has, during its route through the TF-5, the presence of at least three multimodal transport interchanges, one in Los Rodeos, another in Tacoronte and a third in the area of the La Orotava valley, which house taxis, buses and trams and which contribute to removing the North of Tenerife from historical abandonment who suffers at the present time.
Correa proposes, in the same way, “that the Cabildo de Tenerife consider, as a priority, the promotion of the tram to the Los Rodeos airport with the implementation of a multimodal interchange”.
“We believe that the ideal location for the intermediate infrastructure -continued Correa- would be Tacoronte, since the mayor of this municipality, Daniel Díaz, confirmed during the insular meeting in which we addressed the mobility problem that the planning contemplates the availability of land for the establishment of this interchange”.
In the same way, the NC Secretary of Territorial Implantation assures that these multimodal interchange systems “should combine the taxi, the bus and the tram to efficiently promote the use of public transport. The implementation of this infrastructure in Los Rodeos would be a good starting point to begin to solve the historic mobility problem that Tenerife has been suffering for years. We are getting dangerously close to a vehicle park of almost one vehicle per inhabitant, which means that there are already practically more vehicles on the island than people who can drive them, even taking into account the tourists who visit us”.
Correa also shows his concern and estimates that “the worrying misrule of the Council of Tenerife prevents the Island Plan for Sustainable Mobility (PIMSIT) from being approved yet, a document that we consider basic to accurately diagnose the problems and provide comprehensive solutions to the roads of Tenerife, an island that will never get ahead without a clear strategy”.
No to the TF-5 variant
In this sense, they also expressed their rejection of the project for the variant of the TF-5 that “despite having a budget that will exceed 350 million euros, it does not seem that it will end the traffic jams on the Northern highway. In fact, various groups and even the Official College of Civil Engineers, Canals and Ports, have already emphasized that it could create a funnel that would not solve the queues”.
Given this scenario, the Secretary of Territorial Implantation of NC remarks that the starting point for having proposals and efficient solutions “must be the final approval of the PIMSIT, in which experts, professionals and affected sectors can contribute their point of view to improving mobility in Tenerife. This plan has yet to arrive and is decades late, but it is the only tool that would definitively move us away from improvisational policies and occurrences that only generate uncertainty and disaffection among a citizenry that is increasingly disappointed with public representatives. of the island,” he concluded.
