The residents of Guamasa, and other surrounding areas, affected by the closure from 6:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. of exit 14 of Guamasa to the TF-5, direction Santa Cruzthey request a meeting with the president of the CouncilRosa Dávila, and the Minister of Highways, Dámaso Arteaga, “to explain to us why there is a positive assessment of a measure that has been shown not to be positive” and ask for its reopening.
“Because we have been there for three days and it has been proven that it is not. It is true that the TF-5 flows, but they have transferred the traffic jam from the TF-5 to the adjacent roads, which are TF-152 and TF-235,” emphasized the president of the Guamasa neighborhood association, Jonay Lutzardo. , after the neighborhood meeting they called yesterday afternoon to assess the situation and adopt measures so that the closure of the link is not definitive. A meeting in which, according to Jonay Lutzardo, some 500 affected residents from different parts of the La Laguna municipality participated, and in which, in addition, a collection of signatures began, with the first 500 already. “And we will put it in different parts of the town so that everyone who wants can sign, and we will present them to the Town Council asking that the measure they have put in place to close the link be withdrawn,” he explained in this regard.
Furthermore, the neighborhood representative added that “while waiting for how the meeting request is resolved, if one is not called immediately, we will mobilize outside the Town Hall. We are already seeing how we can do it so that they authorize it.”
Since Wednesday
The closure of the Guamasa link (exit 14) to the TF-5, direction Santa Cruz, and the diversion of its traffic along the TF-235 for two kilometers to join the TF-5 through exit 12 (El Portezuelo) began to be applied last Wednesday as a provisional and trial measure, for seven days, by the Cabildo to try to alleviate the queues that occur at this point on the Northern highway early in the morning.
The Cabildo recognized that on the first day of the test the measure relieved traffic on the TF-5, but caused delays on the adjacent roads, which, as they later indicated, improved on the second day. An assessment with which the affected neighbors in the area do not agree. “The time to get from Guamasa to The lagoon“, denounced Jonay Lutzardo in this regard.
