The Cabildo of Tenerife has given the green light to develop the project to reorganize the intersection of El Rosario, also known as La Rambla, in the municipality of San Juan de la Rambla, one of the main black spots on the road, which has motivated dozens of protests by neighbors in recent years to demand more security in the area.
This was conveyed by the insular Highway Councilor, Dámaso Arteaga, to the Municipal Works Councilor, Jonay Méndez, in a meeting recently held at the Insular Palace. The project was awarded to the company Trazas Ingeniería SL and has a budget including IGIC of 64,200 euros.
Arteaga positively valued the meeting in which “we have informed the City Council so that it can inform the neighbors that the project has already been awarded, a file that has not been stopped at any time and with a period of six months to find out what the feasible alternatives are. for this area.” Likewise, he stressed the need to act on this road to provide greater security at the entrance and exit of the neighborhood and its link with the TF-5.
For his part, Jonay Méndez thanked the Cabildo “for taking the reins, unblocking the project and finally beginning to see some light.”
In the previous mandate, the former island president Pedro Martín announced that the drafting of the construction project of an underpass at the height of Barranco Ruiz had already been awarded to the company Trazas Ingeniería SL. However, when consulted about it, Arteaga assured that the file was It was located in another department of the Cabildo, specifically, in the Presidency area, and it was necessary to make an internal change and transfer it to Highways to be able to execute it.
The announcement was not received favorably by the Todos con la Rambla Platform, which considers it “in bad taste” to take advantage of the steps taken by the previous government and to “play with our memory” when what they did “was take the Presidency project to win the goal.”
The Ramblero PSOE pronounces itself along the same lines: “the opacity and mendacity of the Ramblero government group has no limits,” declares its spokesperson, Gloria Méndez, who accuses the CC-AUP-PP Executive “of hiding information from the neighbors.” and deceive them by presenting as current the actions that have already been carried out and that CC, as part of the previous government, is aware of.”
To this, former mayor Ezequiel Domínguez provides the schedule in an explanatory way: “anyone can see the deadlines on the State Contracting Platform, which fortunately is public. On March 25, 2023, the drafting of the project was put out to tender; On May 25, the award proposal was raised by the Contracting Board; The award was agreed on June 21 and the award was published on July 5, the day after the new governing group of the Cabildo took office. Obviously all the actions are prior to this mandate, while the deadline to formalize the contract was from July 7 to 13, 2023, that is, almost six months.”
For all this, the former mayor and the spokesperson wonder “why a management that has already been carried out is presented as new, why it is hidden that it has already been awarded, what has happened to the deadlines and what state the project is in, or if it becomes to tender, what are the reasons?
“We feel deceived, we are as we were at the beginning”
The Todos con La Rambla Platform assures that the neighbors “feel deceived” and reproach the insular Highway Councilor, Dámaso Arteaga, “for failing in his commitments and not taking the Platform into account at all and now throwing the ball to the government group to tell us what was discussed at the meeting. Apparently the counselor finds it inconvenient to meet with the neighbors,” they declare. “We fear that they will tell us about endless problems next and in the meantime, the priority issue of reducing the existing risk is being left aside.”
