The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda confirmed yesterday that the current General State Budgets include an item of five million euros to improve access in and out of the port of Los Cristianos towards the South motorway, a measure that responds to the demands raised by the municipality in terms of mobility and, specifically, to solve the queues that are generated in the area by the activity of the port.
It should not be forgotten that the port of Los Cristianos is one of the ports with the highest traffic and almost all the volume of cars that arrive do not stay in the city, but seek to go directly to the TF-1.
The proposals financed by the Ministry are based on two objectives: to guarantee two exit lanes along the entire itinerary and to provide the main junctions with at least one free lane (without giving way) along the entire route.
The nominal subsidy of five million euros contemplates the burying of Chayofita avenue, whose traffic will circulate underground during the section before the main Los Cristianos roundabout, which would relieve congestion in the city.
The plans include conditioning the roundabout on Havana avenue with the Benchijigua breakwater (to get two exit lanes), increasing Havana avenue to two lanes towards the highway, conditioning the roundabout on Havana avenue with the Finlandia avenue (1 segregated lane), underpass and remodeling of the Chayofita avenue roundabout (underpass under the roundabout and segregated lanes to the right) and remodeling of the south roundabout of the TF-1 junction.
The Arona City Council indicated that, although the budget allocation is “historic news”, it will try to modify some aspects of the Ministry’s proposal that it does not share and that will be included in the drafting of the project. Among these is the creation of two lanes on Avenida de La Habana, which the City Council does not share, since it defends the maintenance of parking spaces, because it considers them “essential”.
José Julián Mena, mayor of Arona, described the grant as “very relevant” and an “important step for the State towards a need for the modernization of Los Cristianos, the regeneration of the city and the interaction of the port-city axis”.
