The vice president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, and Minister of Roads, Enrique Arriaga (Citizens), will present a motion in defense of the construction and commissioning of the BUS-HOV lanes on the TF-1 and TF in a plenary session of the Corporation -5, as well as the Insular Sustainable Mobility Plan (PIMSIT) as a planning element for the next 20 years on the Island.
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Specifically, these are the BUS-HOV lanes that are being planned both on the TF-1, between Güímar and Santa Cruz, and on the TF-5, between La Laguna and Santa Cruz, in those sections of these highways with high occupancy that have three or more lanes in each direction. This would make it possible to go from the current 3.2 kilometers to almost 50 in 2023, according to Arriaga.
For the also spokesman for the Mixed Group-Citizens in the Cabildo, “the implementation of the BUS-VAO is an important incentive to promote the use of public transport, by making it much faster, as well as promoting the shared use of the vehicle This is a measure that would notably reduce the number of vehicles entering large cities”.
The motion also requires the Government of the Canary Islands so that the projects for the expansion of both the TF-1 and the TF-5 with a third lane are drawn up in such a way that this third lane is BUS-HOV in its entirety. route, in order to establish a wide corridor of lanes of this type on the island’s high-occupancy roads and thus promote public transport and shared vehicles.
The importance of the Insular Plan for Sustainable Mobility (PIMSIT) as an essential element of planning will also be fully defended. Arriaga maintains that it will establish “the model of planning and management of mobility for the next 20 years and that it be done from a point of view of sustainability and focusing on the promotion and improvement of public transport.”
Enrique Arriaga has pointed out that the PIMSIT “will be key to being able to face and develop solutions to the serious mobility problem that has affected the island for decades”. In addition, he thanked the political groups for their support in “finding an agreement and thus getting Tenerife up and running”.
Less than a month ago, Arriaga himself presented another motion in which he advocated the macro-project of the train to the south of the island as a solution to the mobility problems in Tenerife. However, he had to withdraw it as he did not have the support of all the political groups in the plenary session, since Sí Podemos rejected it outright and the PSOE argued that it was not the time due to its high cost (more than 2,000 million euros ).
