The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martin (PSOE)announced this Friday, March 24, from the neighborhood of La Rambla, in the northern municipality of San Juan de la Ramblathat the insular administration has launched the processes to call the tender for the project to build a safer access to this coastal nucleus.
“This road does not belong to the Cabildo, and it is also a space that is located in a protected natural space and we have been looking for alternatives that would allow the Cabildo to offer a solution,” said the president, who pointed out that “we can say that We have been lucky, since we have met with the Government of the Canary Islands and In this month of March, after numerous reports, meetings and proposals, the tender for the project will be launched so that the different alternatives can be presented. and we can already have a document that allows us to carry out works in the future that will come to provide a definitive solution, not with one more lane or with a strange exit, but with a new road that reorganizes all the traffic in this area and that guarantees the safety, both for those who drive here and for pedestrians”.
The idea is to enable an underground passage under the TF-5 at the height of Barranco Ruiz
The mayor of San Juan de la Rambla, Ezequiel Dominguez (PSOE)stressed that “after waiting more than forty years to have an exit with security guarantees for the neighborhood of La Rambla, and after the commitment that the insular president himself acquired in July last year with the neighbors, today we are announcing a very important news that is drafting the project to start these works”.
“It has taken a little longer than expected due to various inconveniences between administrationsbut not due to the will that both the president and the neighbors and this Mayor’s Office have always shown, and today we can say that we are beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel,” said the mayor from Rambles.
The president of the Cabildo had met on several occasions with the residents of the population center and had promised to launch the drafting of a new project, based on enable an underground passage at the height of Barranco Ruizand the execution of it in order to definitively solve the problem of access to the TF-5 from the neighborhood of La Ramblain the municipality of San Juan de la Rambla.