Thread: Update on the Island ring road (Southern section) in Tenerife

Work on the construction of the new road between Adeje and Santiago del Teide, part of the new island ring road, should be completed by October 2011, provided there are no unexpected setbacks.

27.11.2009 -

According to the project engineer, Alfonso Hoyas, it is envisaged that the new flyover link at the Armeñime junction, formerly the Atalaya roundabout, will be opened in December. This will join the TF-1 motorway with the TF-82 and should significantly reduce traffic congestion in the area from all directions.

The budget for this southern section of the new ring road, a 27 kilometre stretch which will eventually link with the northern section to the TF-5 is 167.8 million euros. From Guía de Isora to Santiago del Teide, a fast two-lane road is planned while the remainder of the southern section will be a motorway with two lanes in each direction.

There are also plots of land available in case there is sufficient demand for extra lanes to be added in the future. Within the Guia de Isora area a junction will be created to a new road which will connect the ring road with Alcalá and Playa San Juan where the port of Fonsalía is to be constructed in the future.

Hoyas added that the expropriations of land have moved ahead well and that there were only a couple of problem areas including a petrol station and the crossing of a ravine. 70 structures are planned including viaducts, flyovers, underpasses, bridges and a one kilometre tunnel. The Canarian government’s minister for public works, Juan Ramon Hernández, emphasised the magnitude of this project as, “the most important in our area”, and pointed out that the travelling time from Santiago del Teide to Armeñime will in the future be reduced from 25 to 10 minutes.

He also stressed that the work was going ahead at full speed to avoid delays to the eventual opening of the ring road.

The news that the work on the Armeñime junction is to be finished soon (assuming none of those aforementioned unexpected delays) will come as very welcome news to the commuters who are suffering daily on the feeder roads from the Los Gigantes and Guía directions, with long tailbacks and delays now a set feature of the morning rush hour, as parents attempt to get children to school on time and workers leave earlier every day to get to work before 9am.

Source; Island Connections Online