The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martin (PSOE)declared this morning in Cope Tenerife that he will do “everything possible” to advance the deadlines for the execution of the works that he considers key to solving the problem of traffic jams in the north highway (TF-5). Regarding the statement of the insular Councilor for Mobility and Highways, Enrique Arriaga (Cs)that the solution will take time beyond 2028said that they are a mere “personal assessment” and that, therefore, “it is not a criterion that I share because that can be speeded up much more.”
Peter Martin gave as an example of this possibility of shortening deadlines the project of Guamasa to Lora and Tamayo: «If the document of that project is 2,000 pages, then we will have to spend more hours, but we have to move it forward and speed up its declaration of environmental impact», key to be able to put out to tender the works.
The socialist leader advanced that he has already agreed with the president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Angel Victor Torres (PSOE)offer a joint press conference to give details about what progress has been made regarding the actions designed to reduce traffic jams on the TF-5, which have been suffered for more than 30 years. “We want to give an account of how the processing of the projects is going with documentation, not with the very cute photos that we sometimes see in the newspapers,” advanced the president of the Tenerife Council.
Martín also insisted that the definitive work to find solutions regarding traffic jams on the TF-5 is “La Laguna variant, which is the great cause of traffic jams». At the same time, he sees it as essential “to give a definitive boost to two other projects: the section of the insular ring between Icod de los Vinos and San Juan de la Ramblafor which there is already a project that will cost 175 million euros, and the third rail between La Orotava and Guamasa», still pending the final technical document. For the socialist leader, “these are the two projects that will give us the definitive solution to the problems of the Northern highway.”
This conviction that it is possible to speed up the terms of the pending projects in the TF-5 before 2028 is based on the fact that, according to Peter MartinCurrently, “there are already projects and we have the money, and the only thing missing is the environmental impact assessment.”
