The President of the Council of Tenerifethe socialist Pedro Martín, will not accept the ordeal launched last Thursday by the candidate for Canarian CoalitionRosa Dávila, to discuss “face to face” about mobility and the recurring traffic jams that occur daily on the Island’s roads, especially on the two highways. Martín is blunt: “He wants me to get rid of the ridicule he made by saying that he has a solution for the queues in 90 days.” He refers to the nationalist’s proposal last Monday at the EL DÍA forum.
“I’m sorry to say that (Rosa Dávila) has realized that she has made a fool of herself by saying that she fixes the problem of the roads in 90 days.” She adds that she “now wants me to help her out of the mess she’s gotten herself into.” He does not seem willing to do so because of the sentence with which he concludes: “What you have to do to cover up the mistake is to let yourself be advised and provide solutions to a problem that cannot be fixed with the set of simple things that you have offered.”
Martín stresses that the key to solve mobility problems in Tenerife is in the three major works agreed with the Government of the Canary Islands to promote highway projects that when they arrived at the Cabildo “did not exist”, the president values.
The solution, he points out, is “in infrastructures that should have started twenty years ago.” He points out that “more than 80% of the tunnel that connects El Tanque with Santiago del Teide it is finished after years of piecework.” When completed, a portion of the traffic on the TF-5 will be diverted to the south. Judgment: “There was no project for the Icod-San Juan de la Rambla section.” He stresses that “it already has it, such as the environmental evaluation, and the work can be put out to tender in the summer.” It will divert some 20,000 vehicles heading south from the TF-5 so as not to go to Santa Cruz.
It also mentions that “the project for the section between Guamasa and the lower part of La Laguna has been drafted.” This is for him “the great solution to the traffic jams on the Autopista del Norte and it will also be put out to tender this coming summer.” Finally, the third lane from La Orotava to Guamasa is approved, although without an environmental evaluation. “With these three works, the panorama of mobility will radically change,” underlines Martín. To this we must add the works of the Cabildo such as the one on the Padre Anchieta roundabout, one of the black spots, or the burying of the La Esperanza highway, the TF-24.
The PP and the third rail of the TF-5
Lope Afonso, candidate of the Popular Party for the Presidency of the Cabildo de Tenerife, announced yesterday that the PP will present a motion to the next plenary session to urge the Government of Canary Islands for the works of the third lane of the TF-5 “to be tendered and carried out urgently”. The proposal will be defended by the popular counselor Manuel Fernandez. Afonso explains: “The insular government wants to disguise its inaction in the field of mobility based on deceptive ads.” The PP candidate is critical of the news about the third lane of the Northern highway. He explains in this regard: «The Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo take advantage of the pre-electoral period to say that they will undertake this work, despite the fact that José Luis Delgado himself – general director of Road Infrastructure of the regional Executive – recognized that it will not be a reality until 2032». Afonso summarizes: “The people of Tenerife are fed up with the queues.” And he concludes: «This is a serious problem that must be rigorously addressed. Neither the current government was able to solve it in four years nor will it be possible to end it in 90 days. | JDM
