The neighbors of Saint Andrew They have been wondering for days what happened to the palms and others shrubbery that occupied the median on the San Andrés highway, via jurisdiction of the Council of Tenerife. In just a few weeks all vegetation has disappeared that covered this space and that gave a different touch to this road. The Tenerife Council explained yesterday that this vegetation has been removed due to the poor condition of much of it and the lack of space for its development.
Thus, they detail that, “due to the poor condition of the plantations that had little space for their natural development, the unprotected palm trees, known as hybrids, have been felled, while the few canaries that existed have been transplanted.”
In addition, the existing oleanders have also been removed “because they are eminently poisonous”, they point out from the Cabildo.
The Island Corporation, to questions from DIARIO DE AVISOS, confirmed that it will not proceed to replace the vegetation in the median of the San Andrés highway, among other things because, through this space, “the lighting and fiber optic network runs for Anaga”.
Precisely another of the complaints that users of this road have been expressing for months is the lack of public lighting, which remains off. As for the fiber optic network for Anaga, this is a project belonging to the Insular Telecommunications Ring, with which it is intended to provide all the towns of Anaga with internet connection, to improve communication, which is insufficient in many of them.
Already in 2021, a landscape intervention was carried out on the same road, with the cleaning of the slopes and the removal of the dragon trees that grew on the sidewalks, to transplant them to other points where they could continue to grow without the impediments they had in Sidewalk.
A study of the situation in which the dragon trees found themselves concluded that the dragon trees were not developing optimally as a result of the narrow pits in which they were found, and they needed to be replanted for proper growth.
This option is the one that is repeated now for the palm trees that have some type of protection, since for the rest, as the neighbors pointed out, they have been felled at ground level.
