The Cabildo of Tenerife announced this Tuesday, after 9 pm, that it will cut the Guamasa link with the Northern Highway (TF-5) next Tuesday, October 24, with the aim of “improving mobility in this area during peak hours.” Traffic will be diverted to the TF-235 highway (that of the North Airport), “where there is a direct exit to the highway, going from two to three lanes.”
The Cabildo assures that this measure has been “agreed upon” with the La Laguna City Council in a meeting held this Tuesday afternoon, although the closure of the detour was already announced days before said meeting by the councilors of the Canarian Coalition in Aguere, who, despite being in the opposition, were informed by the Council before the Government group itself.
The meeting was attended by the island president Rosa Dávila; the Minister of Mobility, Eulalia García and the Minister of Highways Dámaso Arteaga, who met last week with the councilors of CC, a party to which he also belongs.
The mayor of La Laguna, Luís Yeray Gutiérrez was accompanied by the Councilor for Mobility, Cristina Ledesma; the mayor of Urban Planning, Adolfo Cordobés and municipal technicians.
Rosa Dávila expressed her satisfaction with the good disposition of the mayor of La Laguna to whom she explained the main mobility measures that concern the town. In the case of cutting access to the TF-5 with Guamasa, the island president explained that it will be a measure that will be tested for eight days, “enough time to be able to analyze the results together with the city council technicians and with its mayor, so we will take stock of whether it is a viable solution. If so, the president announced that the conditions of the TF-235 will be improved to propose this detour “as something more definitive.”
For his part, the mayor of La Laguna, Luís Yeray Gutiérrez, described the meeting with the Cabildo as “very productive” and stressed that it is a test. “We are going to carry out this proposal and, from there, the data generated by this idea will be studied later.”
The Minister of Highways, Dámaso Arteaga explained that the diversion of traffic towards the TF-235 will be regulated by the Civil Guard and stressed the importance of this pilot measure that will last eight days, from 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. the morning. “I would ask the surrounding population for their collaboration. It is a two-kilometer stretch that takes about four minutes and we hope this measure works,” Arteaga said.
