The Cabildo of Tenerife will try from on Tuesday, October 24, an alternative to try to reduce queues on the North Highway. This measure will be to close the Guamasa interchange between 7:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. to prevent the residents of that area from joining the road, who must continue along the road parallel to the TF-5 to join the previous exit. to the North airport, where the third lane of the highway begins.
As reported this Tuesday by the island institution, the measure will begin on October 24. From there it will continue for eight working days, that is, October 24, 25, 26, 27, 30 and 31, as well as November 2 and 3. The Cabildo specified that traffic will be diverted to the TF-235 highway, on which “There is a direct exit to the highway, going from two to three lanes.”
This change will mean that for 4 kilometers no more vehicles will enter the two-lane zone of the TF-5 and that they will remain on the parallel road until their exit, which will now be in the three-lane zone. This will fundamentally affect the residents of Guamasa and El Ortigal, who would join the highway through another exit than the usual one.
Given this novelty, the institutions have planned to mobilize several members of the Civil Guard to guide and clarify to drivers where they should go while this test lasts. The objective is to achieve greater traffic flow on the Northern Highway (TF-5) as it passes through this area. That was the main agreement that came out of the meeting held on Tuesday by the president of the Council, Rosa Davila (CC), and the Lagunero mayor, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez (PSOE).
Dávila showed “his satisfaction with the good disposition of the mayor of La Laguna”, to whom he explained the main mobility measures that concern the municipality, according to the Cabildo. Regarding this cutoff of TF-5 access to Guamasa, he stated that “It will be a provisional measure that will be carried out for eight days, which will be enough time to be able to analyze the results together with the City Council technicians and its mayor, so that we will make a count of whether it is a viable solution”. If it works it would become “something more definitive.”
