New Year New Life. This will be the case for hundreds of kilometers of roads and streets in the majority of municipalities in the south of Tenerife. Between municipal budget items and mostly through extrajudicial credit modifications, thanks to the positive treasury remnants, the town halls have scheduled these actions that were lethargic in many cases due to the 2008 crisis.
To be honest, after the modification of the spending rules -due to the pandemic- the city councils have been investing what Law 27/2013, of December 27, on the rationalization and sustainability of the Local Administration prevented them, although it is Now, with the municipal elections on May 28 just around the corner, when the piche (asphalt) will be the undisputed king of investment. Only Vilaflor de Chasna has no plans, from the Valley of Güímar to Punta de Teno, to invest money in paving.
Such is the avalanche of requests for piche from the consistories that its recycling has had to increase to meet the demand, although from Ten Asfalto, one of the largest companies in Tenerife in the sector, we are told that “today there is asphalt, Another thing is the aggregates, which are becoming scarcer every day, as there is only one quarry in production”, they warn.
And in this aggregate deficit, of course, the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo, which in recent years have begun works of vital importance such as the Erjos tunnel, to complete the island ring, the Oroteanda-Las Chafiras, to relieve congestion on the TF-1 or the eternal roundabout of Padre Anchieta, in La Laguna, to relieve traffic jams on the TF-5. Works that will continue during this newly launched 2023 and many others will come to meet the spectacular demand of almost one car per inhabitant on the island, although traffic can be alleviated with the free buses.
Municipalities
The Arona government group completed the paving of 32 streets and roads on October 27 with an investment of almost 2.73 million euros. Among them, roads as important as Chayofita avenue or Juan Carlos I, at the entrance to Los Cristianos. But the minority socialist government could not push that motion forward. The roads to be resurfaced were: Arona: El Cementerio street, Cabo Blanco: Santa Rita street, El Lomito street, El Horno street and El Fisco street, Costa del Silencio: Garañaña street, Salto del Chopo street, Paseo Cornisa and Otero Las Rosas street : Barroso street, El Fraile: San Sebastián de La Gomera street, Islas Canarias avenue and Fuerteventura street. Los Cristianos: Chayofita avenue, Finlandia street, Los Sabandeños avenue, Mónaco street, Juan Carlos I avenue (bus stop area), San Francisco avenue (up to a small roundabout), Paralela street Chayofita avenue, Hermano Pedro Bethencourt street (partial), avenue Suecia, Ramón Pino street, Los Playeros Avenue, Montaña Chica (up to the Post Office) and Roque de Jama (including Isleta). All of them within the IV Asphalting Plan planned in 2020 for 200 streets of the municipality.
Granadilla de Abona executed around 33 asphalting projects, with a global budget of 1,168,000 euros. They were distributed in Los Abrigos, with 7 performances and more than 450,000 euros; in subdivisions, with 8 performances and more than 600,000 euros, and in San Isidro, with 3 performances and 118,000 euros. For this year, actions with a treasury remainder are planned, with an investment of around one million euros, and are distributed in 11 actions, consisting of the El Médano seafront and streets of Las Vegas, Cruz de Tea, Charco del Pino , La Higuera, Granadilla and also in El Médano.
The Guía de Isora City Council is working on a new asphalt plan that it plans to launch at the beginning of 2023, with an amount of 300,000 euros, focused on the most deteriorated streets of the municipality. Subsequently, the item destined for a second asphalt paving will be increased, including not only urban roads, but also agricultural tracks.
From Adeje we are told that there will be actions to urbanize streets, not only with asphalt, but also with new lighting and furniture. “We are not just going to put piche because the elections come,” they say.
In Santiago del Teide, its mayor, Emilio Navarro, is also of the same opinion, because he recalls that several projects are pending to urbanize streets this year and repave some deteriorated ones.
The Candelaria City Council recently approved two credit modifications that will allow, thanks to municipal savings, different actions for an amount greater than 3,500,000 euros and which include aspects such as the second phase of the Asphalt Plan, which will focus mainly in the suburbs, with more than 50 streets and an investment of 2,700,000 euros. This is in addition to the tender in November for the repaving of 22 streets for an amount of 1,163,817.69 euros, which will improve the conditions of more than 45,000 square meters of paving. Specifically, the streets that will be intervened, in this first phase, to improve the deficiencies detected, will be: Camino El Lomo, La Morrita, Arenitas, Mencey Beneharo, Mencey Pelinor, La Goleta, Mencey Añaterve, La Rana. Nivaria, El Pozo, Andrés Tejera Reyes, Fathers Jesús Mendoza, Víctor Rodríguez Cruz, Dominican Friars, Juan Cape El Pescador, Los Fariña, Barranquillo Hondo, El Madroño, Guanches of the Virgin of Candelaria, Estrelitzia, José Miguel Galván Bello and El Guarrajo .
In Güímar, the first phase of the Güímar Rural plan is about to be carried out, which includes improving access to tracks and farm roads. Specifically, the works on Camino de Las Coloradas, Camino Real Zona Guaza, Camino Los Hurones, Camino El Perro, Camino La Hidro, Calle Irineo, Camino las Madrigueras, Camino Real El Escobonal, Cruce Lomo de la Caseta and Arrastradero de Up. The mayor, Gustavo Pérez, points out that after this tender “there is a team to patch up tracks and roads and they are already working on the next phase.” In addition, from the Urban Planning area, the asphalting of 11 streets of El Puertito de Güimar and in the center of Canarias Street, where the Town Hall and the Courts are located, will be tendered.
In Fasnia, Arafo and Arico, roads and rural roads will also be paved, although in a more modest way. In San Miguel de Abona, a few days ago the municipal budget was approved, which includes 100,000 euros for urbanization, resurfacing and sidewalk works on Fermín Pérez street, in El Frontón). 220,000 euros for the adaptation and improvements of the sidewalks around the Town Hall and improvements to the car park on the Carretera del Sur (TF-28). The most important item, of 500,000 euros, will be allocated to the resurfacing of sidewalks and asphalt in Llano del Camello, Las Chafiras, Amarilla Golf and Golf del Sur, as well as several agricultural roads.
