The TF-5 highway Once again there is extremely slow traffic at the entrance to Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Yesterday, a traffic accident complicated the situationbut today the simple influx of drivers to do Christmas shopping is what slows down traffic from the Meridiano shopping center until before reaching Somosierra.
Until March 2023only in the passenger car section, in round numbers, the islands had 980,000 gasoline cars, 236,000 diesel and only 7,028 electric cars. Added to buses, trucks, trailers, motorcycles and tractors, in the Canary Islands there were then 1,821,314 vehicles, on track to equal the inhabitants.
At that date, the average density of vehicles in the Canary Islands was 829.9 per thousand inhabitants, somewhat higher in Tenerife (839.2), where if we placed all the cars in single file we could reach Paris and not all of them would fit in our cars. roads. La Gomera has the lowest average vehicle density (763.4).
