The Council of Tenerife has awarded three contracts for the improvement and rehabilitation of three roadslocated in the South and North of the Island for a global amount of €6.4 millionwhich will result in the improvement that will be carried out on these island-owned roads as they pass through the municipalities of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, La Laguna and Arona.
By virtue of the aforementioned contract for the improvement of the roads, the conditioning of the TF-12 road between kilometer points 9,460 to 28,670 with a budget of 4 million euros and an execution period of one year. This road runs through the northeast of the island between the municipalities of Santa Cruz and La Laguna offering service to the population of the Anaga Massif. The objective of the work is to condition the road to improve its safety measures. It is also a historical demand from the residents, given the importance of this road in accessing both residents of the Anaga Rural Park as well as for visitors who travel to the area to enjoy this environment that is a Biosphere Reserve.
In the road improvement chapter, also from the area directed by the insular councilor Dámaso Arteaga will be developed Actions in Arona on the TF-652 between kilometer points 4,300 and 6,000 and on the TF-653 between kilometer points 0 and 3,100, which directly affects the area of Guargacho and La Estrella, respectively. In the first case, the investment is 1.4 million euros, while the work on the TF-653 has an item of approximately 982,000 euros. Both roads support a high level of traffic on a daily basis, which is why it is necessary to rehabilitate and pave the pavement of the platforms, as well as improve the drainage elements of the roads. The works have an execution period of four months.
The insular Minister of Highways, Dámaso Arteaga, highlighted the importance of the work to condition the surface of the aforementioned roads, since these are interventions “highly anticipated by users” and with them, “the commitment and significant effort are shown by the Cabildo de Tenerife for the improvement of these roads, which in some cases had been tired for a long time. In the same way, Arteaga indicated that the start of the works is scheduled for the last quarter of this year, without forgetting that it comes to meet an old demand from the neighbors, especially in the case of Anaga, which benefits both residents of cross, The lagoon and up to Tegueste, given the scope of action of the Rural Park. Along with safety, it will also come to give better quality to the island’s road network.
