finally one came consensual solution to solve the problems in the accesses to the neighborhood of La Rambla, in the northern municipality of San Juan de La Rambla, which have generated innumerable protests from the residents of this nucleus. The president of Council of TenerifePedro Martín, yesterday announced an agreement to launch the drafting of a new project, based on enabling an underpass at the height of Barranco Ruiz, to definitively solve the problem of access to the TF21.
The commitment, reached in a meeting with the representatives of the La Rambla Platform and the mayor of the northern municipality, Ezequiel Domínguez, “will resolve a historic demand from the neighbors who have denounced before the insular institution security problems in the accesses to the nucleus population,” said the president of the Island Corporation through an official statement.
“For months we have been looking for an alternative to give entrance and exit to the core of La Rambla», indicated the socialist Pedro Martín, who however admitted that «the reports we have received from the highway technicians were unfavorable to any proposed solution, such as putting in a small boulevard and not making a broken line that would allow changes of direction». “Ultimately,” he said, “there was no simple solution to apply to the layout of the current highway.”
After many studies, he noted Peter Martin, “we present a new, totally different proposal, which consists of carrying out a work with an underground pass that runs under the road and that allows safe entry and exit in both directions to definitively solve the problem of this population center” . “This proposal will be more expensive and will take longer to execute, but it is the right one,” stressed the president, “but we are already working from the Highways area to put the drafting of the project out to tender and, once we have it, we reiterate the commitment to put the works out to tender. “I am confident that in the coming months we can have a company to which we have awarded the drafting of the project and then have a document that we can put in the hands of the City Council so that it has the guarantee of having a solution for this historical problem,” he concluded. President.
months of protests
The Neighborhood protests in recent months have come to jam traffic on the TF-5 on Sundays at noon. The demand for a safe connection linking the neighborhood of La Rambla with the TF-5 has the unanimous support of the Municipal Corporation, with the mayor, Ezequiel Domínguez (PSOE), at the head. AIS-CC, PP, AUP- Sí se puede and San Juan de la Rambla Somos Todos have shared this neighborhood demand. In a plenary session held on December 23, 2021, they came to label as “obvious offense that the solution to the insecurity of access to La Rambla has been left out of the project for the section of the island ring between Icod and La Guancha.”
