The president of the construction association in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Fepeco, Óscar Izquierdo, asked this Tuesday the president of the Cabildo of Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, to solve the mobility problems that exist in Tenerife, an island , in his opinion, “stuck, collapsed and disorganized.”
Óscar Izquierdo has offered a press conference accompanied by his team and the professor of surgery and former senator for the PP Antonio Alarcó to talk about the queues on the roads of Tenerife and the psychosomatic consequences of the people who suffer them.
The president of Fepeco has criticized that Tenerife is delayed by “almost four decades” compared to the development of the execution of the works of the different road agreements that have been executed on the other islands of the Canary archipelago.
For this reason, he has demanded that public works be put out to tender and executed and, in this sense, he has affirmed that Rosa Dávila must lead “in a forceful way” the “very important and non-extendable” challenge of solving the queues and traffic jams on the island of Tenerife.
He has valued the Cabildo’s mobility plan, which in his opinion is “positive and very important”, although he has asked its president to move “from words to actions” and put it into practice.
“The Cabildo of Tenerife will have the absolute support of FEPECO and businessmen in the construction sector to build those fair, necessary, basic and structural roads that the island has been demanding for four decades and that have not been built,” has asserted.
Izquierdo, who has indicated that his intention is not to “fill the island with cement”, has demanded that the Department of Public Works of the Government of the Canary Islands put out to tender in Tenerife at least the same number of works and the same amount of financing as is dedicating to the island of Gran Canaria.
Likewise, he has listed some of the pending works on the island, such as the closure of the island ring in the north and in the metropolitan area with the construction of the La Laguna bypass and external road, the third lane of the southern highway and the burying of this road in Las Chafiras and Fañabé.
Izquierdo has also proposed that the northern highway between the northern airport and the Padre Anchieta bridge be buried in order to build a large avenue that unifies La Laguna and integrates the university into the urban fabric.
Health problems associated with traffic jams
Antonio Alarcó has added that traffic jams produce stress for citizens, which generates tachycardia and hypertension, which is negative for the body if it continues permanently.
All of this leads to exhaustion, which results in low immunity, a circumstance that causes the person who suffers from it to be susceptible to many diseases, said the former PP senator, who has linked traffic jams with health problems.
Furthermore, Alarcó, who was vice president of the Cabildo of Tenerife, has expressed the opinion that for there to be sustainable development on the island, trains from the north and south are essential, subsidization of taxis, construction of an empty bus lane and also park and ride facilities. .
