The mayor of Santa Cruz, José Manuel Bermúdez, through the area of Works and Infrastructures directed by Dámaso Arteaga, demands from the Island Council “the immediate start-up of public lighting on the highway of Saint Andrewthe TF-11, of its exclusive competence”, while urging this Corporation “to make the necessary investment to guarantee the energy efficiency of street lighting and the improvement of lighting conditions in the area”.
Bermúdez recalls that “this island road, in its section from Cueva Bermeja to San Andrés, has a median, sidewalks, vegetation and installation of public lighting and its maintenance and management is the exclusive responsibility of the Island Council of Tenerife” and adds that “it is It is irresponsible to leave this road without lighting, when it is an area with a significant density of traffic, as well as a place of passage for many pedestrians and cyclists”.
Weeks with lights off in San Andrés
For his part, Arteaga insists that “for a few weeks now, the lighting fixtures, which have more than 60 columns and staffs, have been deliberately turned off with the damage this causes to traffic safety on that stretch of road. and for pedestrians who usually travel the route between Santa Cruz and San Andrés”.
The mayor of Infrastructures argues that this blackout in the lighting of the San Andrés road “seems to respond to the new priorities of the Cabildo de Tenerife in terms of investment in the maintenance and management of the roads, which has relegated this stretch of road to abandonment by its current leaders.
“To the energy inefficiency of the installation -adds the Councilor for Works- must now be added the lack of replenishment of vegetation and the lack of cleanliness of the road”, issues that the City Council also denounces.
Dámaso Arteaga concludes by emphasizing that “what has already been unaffordable is the turning off of the lights, leaving this busy stretch completely in the dark, totally and absolutely ignoring the fact that the San Andrés highway is considered a multi-lane road, in which the speed is limited to 60 kilometers per hour, precisely to guarantee the safety conditions for cyclists and pedestrians that the lack of light compromises.
