The Las Chafiras link works are one of the most important to avoid the monumental traffic jams that have formed in the south of Tenerife in recent years and which have well-located nodes, such as this polygon, in the case of San Miguel de Abona, o Guaza and the entrance and exit of Los Cristianos, in Arona.
This fact and the approach of the key weeks of September, with the return to the educational centers, by the students, and many workers on their vacations, is what predicts important retentions, aggravated even more by the jobs that are They are being developed throughout the area and have not finished yet.
That is the reason why a tripartite meeting has been held, in which the mayor of San Miguel, Arturo González (CC), has participated on behalf of the municipality, the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo de Tenerife.
Municipal sources from the San Miguel corporation have explained precisely that the meeting, which was also attended by technical personnel, has been raised by the mayor, the possibility of seeking alternatives to avoid a collapse of traffic, or speeding up work on as much as possible, with the aim that the situation that is expected to not worsen in the coming weeks, occurs at the beginning of the course.
The Las Chafiras junction is a large-scale work, the objective of which is to relieve daily traffic on the motorway in this area, reducing motorway travel time by 50%. All this with an investment of 21.8 million euros and thirty months of execution since its award, which occurred at the end of 2019.
This action is one of the main interventions projected for the island of Tenerife, important insofar as it will respond to the traffic congestion that occurs on the TF-1 where some 75,000 vehicles circulate daily.
It is precisely to reduce traffic jams that this work has been partially opened. In December 2021, the Ministry of Public Works of the Government of the Canary Islands put two branches of the link into service.
The meeting was attended, in addition to Arturo González, by the Deputy Minister of Infrastructures of the Government of the Canary Islands, Francisco González, the Councilor for Roads of the Cabildo, Dámaso Arteaga, the Councilor for Infrastructures of San Miguel de Abona, Rafael Baute, and several technicians.
