The Cabildo of Tenerife has approved this Tuesday the tender for construction works, In the lagoon, from the pedestrian walkway at the Padre de Anchieta link of the TF-5 regional road of interest, with a budget of 9,764,194 euros.
In a statement, the vice president of the corporation and counselor of Highways, Enrique Arriaga, has recalled that this is one of the three major actions planned to reduce traffic congestion from the north of Tenerife to Santa Cruz, and that “evidences the Cabildo’s commitment to the citizenry.”
Once awarded, this work will have an execution period of 18 months and it will affect the budgets with a multi-year expenditure that will take place between 2021 and 2023, Arriaga has detailed.
The insular director of Roads, Thomas Felix Garcia, has highlighted that deadlines have been getting shorter, which has allowed to take out the tender for this work weeks in advance of what was planned.
In this way, the start of the works, scheduled for November, “it is likely that they will also anticipate”, He pointed out.
The proposed solution is a continuous curved ring-shaped beam approximately 100 meters in diameter, supported by a system of specific supports, with a square attached to the current parking lot of the Faculty of Biology of the University of La Laguna, and with a total length of the ring of about 314 meters.
This project has been awarded the National Innovation and Design Awards 2019, granted by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
The Cabildo recalls that the three major works planned to help end the “serious” mobility problem on the island they are the burying the TF-24 in its connection with the highway, the construction of the Padre Anchieta footbridge and the launch of the third lane of the TF-5 towards Santa Cruz.
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