The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, stated this Wednesday at a press conference that the traffic jams on the island “probably” will not be solved in 90 days, contrary to what she promised in the last electoral campaign prior to the elections. regional authorities on May 28. The insular councilor announced on April 17 five measures “if she were to govern” to achieve this purpose: stagger the entrance and exit to the administrations and large workplaces, increase school transportation, decentralize public services, a specific proposal for the university community and shuttle buses from the north and south to the University of La Laguna.
However, this Wednesday he has decided, in agreement with the Government of the Canary Islands, to give priority during his mandate to the expansion of the third lane of the TF-5, between Guamasa and La Orotava, and of the platform of the TF-1, in a meeting held with the Minister of Public Works, Housing and Mobility. After the meeting, he assured that the traffic jams “are not solved with the works” but with other measures that may be in place “to reduce the number of movements and vehicles that circulate” in which they have found “predisposition” of the agents involved and the collaboration of the Government of the Canary Islands.
On the other hand, Dávila has announced that he has reached an agreement with the Executive so that the Cabildo can act in certain links of specific projects and without large-scale, with the supervision of the regional government, such as in works on roads of general interest for facilitate the flow of traffic. To this he added that they have identified nine projects of this type in which they could act “immediately”.
Traffic jams in Tenerife are one of the main problems for citizens. The situation is especially worse on the TF-5, the highway that runs through the north of the island and that usually collapses at rush hour or when traffic accidents occur. According to the traffic data server TomTom Traffic Index, residents waste a total of three days and eight hours a year queuing on the streets of Tenerife.
This problem has caused, for example, the delay in the start of classes from the beginning of the new school year until after 10:00 in the morning at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of La Laguna (ULL) after an agreement reached in May between the educational center and the Cabildo.
