The Council of Tenerife officially began this Tuesday, January 17, 2023, the works of two long-awaited roundabouts that will improve safety and the flow of traffic at two key intersections in Santa Úrsula and La Victoria de Acentejo. Is about two roundabouts that will help channel vehicle traffic between the main highway (TF-217) and the links to the Northern highway (TF-5). two points of the road network of the Acentejo region for which an average of 3,530 vehicles circulate dailyaccording to the capacity studies of the insular area of Highways.
The Cuesta de la Villa roundabout It has a cost that is close to 600,000 euros and will be, according to the Cabildo, “a highly complex work, due to the unevenness of the terrain, which requires lowering so that the roundabout has visibility in all its branches and in this way reduce the risk of accidents». Your five-month lead timeso it could be put into operation in the month of June.
Last week, the mayor of Santaursulero, Juan Acosta (AISU)recognized that the roundabout Slope of the Villa It is “undoubtedly one of the works most demanded and expected by the residents of the town, who have been suffering for years from the retentions that occur daily, and at any time, in this area.”
The victoriero municipality has been waiting for its roundabout since work stopped in 2015
The beginning of these works in Saint Ursulanear the border with La Orotava, coincide with the release of another long-awaited work: the roundabout in the junction of the TF-217 highway and the access road to the TF-5 highway, in the municipal term of Acentejo’s Victory. These works also began yesterday and will have the same execution and completion period.
The first vice-president of the Tenerife Council and insular councilor for Highways, Enrique Arriaga (Cs), said that this roundabout “will speed up one of the main access points to the municipality, through which an average of 3,530 vehicles circulate every day. An area where both pedestrians and vehicles attend, so road safety will also be increased. This action will take place around a large clearing located to the south of the TF-217, between the uphill and downhill lanes to the TF-5.
For the insular director of Highways, Thomas Felix Garciaat this point on the main road there are also “serious traffic jams and, for this reason, we have been working with the City Council for some time to design this roundabout that will mean a significant improvement for circulation.”
This work will provide The victory of a roundabout about 30 meters in outer diameter with three branches, an infrastructure similar to the ones that the Cabildo is executing in collaboration with different municipalities of the region to increase the comfort and capacity of the TF-217. The work of the La Victoria roundabout started running in 2015, but it was paralyzed due to problems with the previous winning company. After a long and complex process, eight years later it is up and running again.
