SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Aug. 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Public Works, Housing and Mobility of the Government of the Canary Islands, Pablo Rodríguez, and the president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, held a working meeting on Wednesday in which they established the construction of a third lane as priority works both on the Northern Motorway (TF-5) and on the Southern Motorway (TF-1), completing the Chafiras-Oroteanda link and closing the Erjos tunnel.
The meeting also included the regional vice-counselor for Infrastructures, Francisco González; the vice president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, José Miguel Ruano; the general director of Road Infrastructure of the Executive, Rosana Melián; the Island Councilor for Mobility, Eulalia García, and the CEO of Highways, Dámaso Artega.
Pablo Rodríguez has reported that the Ministry will focus its efforts on the prioritization and planning of road projects on the island of Tenerife to provide effective solutions that allow responding to mobility problems.
The counselor has also stressed the importance of maintaining a fluid dialogue and monthly meetings to “improve communication between the institutions and work together” with the aim of executing the works that are already underway and to be able to improve the performance times taking into account the island needs.
“These next four years are key to the execution of the Highway Agreement, which ends in 2027. We are going to focus on carrying out the most urgent projects to tender and award the works as soon as possible,” Rodríguez pointed out.
For her part, the president of the Cabildo de Tenerife has stated that the meeting with the Department of Public Works is the “beginning of a new stage for the island, where dialogue, consensus and joint work will prevail, something that is not has been the tonic in the last four years,” he added.
In this sense, both have considered that the expansion works of the TF-5 and TF-1, finishing the Chafiras-Oroteanda link and closing the Erjos tunnel are “essential” projects to “end the serious congestion problems that suffer these roads, increasing their capacity and favoring the flow of traffic”.
Thus, Pablo Rodríguez recalled that several of these initiatives are already underway. On the one hand, the closure of the island ring, in the El Tanque-Santiago del Teide section, with the depth of the second tube of the Erjos tunnel; and, on the other, the false tunnel of the TF-1, between Las Américas-Fañabé, one of the main projects on the island of Tenerife that has recently been awarded.
Finally, the president of the Cabildo has emphasized the agreement reached with the Ministry, by which the Island Corporation may act in specific projects, even if it does not have powers, always under the supervision of the Ministry of Public Works.
In total there are nine interventions in links in various areas of the Island whose works do not have a high cost, can be completed quickly and will improve traffic and mobility conditions. Examples of these works include the rearrangement of the TF-2 link with the TF-1, the Los Rodeos airport link with the TF-5, TF-152 and TF-235 and the Guaza link with the TF- 1.
