The South will have a 15 kilometer tram that will link Adeje and Arona and will run through the main tourist area of the Island: Costa Adeje-Playa de the Americas. Among its 19 stops is the Hospital del Sur and the urban area of Adeje. This is reflected in the Island Plan for Sustainable Mobility of Tenerifewhich is based on the Study of Alternatives for a High Capacity Public Transport corridor between San Isidro and Adeje, prepared by Metropolitano de Tenerife in 2021.
This is an infrastructure that will share space with other types of transportation. The tram lanes will be integrated into the road pavement and the tram strip is freely accessible to road traffic, subject to current regulations. In this case, the tram will coexist with the pedestrian in the areas corresponding to the pedestrian zones, planned for the roads called Rafael Puig Llivina and Avenida de España, both in the area of Costa Adeje.
The tram will also run separated from traffic by sections that will have curbs or bushes. This tram strip may be crossed at some points by pedestrians, but its use by common road traffic is not permitted under normal conditions. This is the predominant profile in the interurban area and on wide urban roads. That is, it is the system that will dominate on the general highway of the South (TF-28), from the Autopista del Sur to Los Cristianos (TF-665), on Chayofita, Antonio Domínguez (Arona) and de los Pueblos avenues (Adeje). ), Brussels Street, the Fañabé-La Caleta highway, the margins of the TF-1 and the urban area of Adeje.
But the tram will also run segregated or exclusively along Avenida Chayofita, in Los Cristianos. That is, it will travel through a hermetically closed strip for road, pedestrian and any other traffic due to its configuration (tunnel, viaduct or retaining walls) or through impenetrable fencing.
Metropolitan area.
This approach to the Tenerife Sustainable Mobility Island Plan, a document that is in the public exhibition period and whose application horizon will expire in the year 2045, is contemplated among the forecasts for the expansion of tram lines, currently operational only between Santa Cruz and La Laguna, with two lines. The purpose is for Line 1, which runs between the Santa Cruz Interchange and Trinidad Avenue, to continue to the Tenerife North-City of La Laguna Airport; and that Line 2, now between La Cuesta and Tíncer, continues its route to La Gallega. Newly created would be Line 3, whose route is planned from the Fairgrounds to Muelle Norte and The Theresiesas well as Line 4, which would run from the La Candelaria stop (Line 1) to Anazain Santa Cruz.
San Isidro-Adeje.
In the studies prepared by Metrotenerife of alternatives for the implementation of a high-capacity public transport corridor between San Isidro and Adeje, covering the Tenerife South Airport, in addition to the tram between Adeje and Arona, a Train-Tram from San Isidro to Adeje, which would have a route of 30 kilometers and would have six stations. The number of travelers in both modes was above 13,000 travelers per day in the first and 35,000 in the second, according to the study’s assessment.
The Insular Mobility Plan determines that, “despite the significant volume of trips recorded in the Southern region, there is an issue that penalizes these systems: the high population dispersion, which results in the distance of the stops and, therefore, , the obligation to integrate the private vehicle as a stage of the trip or a power system as powerful as the tram system itself in terms of frequency.
Four years ago.
On January 30, 2019, the Cabildo made public its intention to “promote the construction of a train-tram between San Isidro and Adeje if the numbers work out,” Carlos Alonso said then, when he was president of the Institution. To carry out this project a minimum of five years would be required, because it will require the purchase or expropriation of the necessary land and the preparation of environmental impact studies.
Taking into account that the route affected by this guided transport system is equivalent to a third of that designed for the Tren del Sur, the idea that was presented by Canarian Coalition three years ago is that the cost could be borne by the Tenerife Council and for him Government of the Canary Islands, without needing financial support from the State. Aspect in which discrepancies arose between the political groups represented in the insular Corporation during the previous mandate.
The then insular Minister of Roads and Mobility, Enrique Arriaga, assured that “it is completely unsustainable” that the financing comes from the Cabildo’s own funds and the Government of Canary Islands. The cost of executing this project was estimated at more than 900,000 euros.
The planned Train-Tram route includes, in addition to the Tenerife Sur-Reina Sofía Airport, the Las Chafiras industrial and commercial estate, in San Miguel de Abona, as well as the towns of Parque de La Reina, Guaza and Los Cristianos, all of them in nuclei of the municipality of Arona.
