The technical reports that the Council of Tenerife certify the impossibility of implementing any of the alternatives proposed by the municipality of Los Realejos for the reopening of the exit from El Patronato to the TF-5. The two options violate current traffic regulations and pose a serious danger to traffic and road safety.
The Minister of Highways, Enrique Arriaga, details that “69 accidents have been registered in the area as recorded in the Civil Guard database since 2016 and we cannot forget that in 2020 and early 2021 traffic was lower as a result of the movement restrictions that were decreed by the Covid”.
To which Arriaga adds that “the alternatives proposed by the municipality of Los Realejos are not viable either, they do not comply with current traffic regulations and, in the same way as the previous one, they are a risk for road safety that is unaffordable for any administration.”
The insular director of Highways, Tomás Félix García, explains that the technical reports made by the area clearly detail the connections that must be made through an acceleration lane with established minimum measures and conditions that in neither of the two royal alternatives can be carry out, in addition to skipping one of them the horizontal marking and a continuous line”.
And he stresses that “The City Council intends to make vehicles coexist on the same section that from the El Patronato road must speed up to join the trunk of the TF5 with others that circulating along this lane must slow down to access the El Realejo junction. It is evident that the vehicle that accesses from the El Patronato road must adapt its speed to the vehicles that precede it and that circulate at low speed, with the risk of accidents due to rear-end that this entails.
The rehabilitation that the council has carried out on the TF-5 has not only improved the state of the road surface of a large part of the trunk of the road and many of its links, but has also made it possible to adapt the road to existing regulations.
The Realejos Management Plan itself includes the elimination of the access from the Patronato Path to the TF-5 and contemplates the alternative solution to it. Therefore, the council urges the City Council to start it as soon as possible.
