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RADICAL IDEA TO SOLVE TENERIFE’S DAILY TRAFFIC CONGESTION
One lane on TF-1 section should be REVERSED, say business leaders
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USINESS representatives in the south of Tenerife have put forward a radical temporary solution to the horrendous traffic jams being suffered in both parts of the island every day.
Woman, 51, dies in motorbike accident
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51-year-old woman has been killed in a motorbike accident in Tenerife.
The person she was with, a 56-year-old man, was injured and was taken to hospital suffering from trauma to the lower limb of a moderate nature and a clavicle injury. The accident happened at the crossing of the TF-24 with the TF-523 (Cruce de Los Loros) in the municipality of Arafo at 3.34pm on Sunday. The emergency services, including the medicalised helicopter, was sent to the scene following a report that two people on a motorbike had been injured in an accident. There was nothing medics could do to save the life of the woman because of the injuries she received and she was declared dead at the scene. No nationalities have been released.
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The Circle of Entrepreneurs and Professionals of the South of Tenerife (CEST) wants one of the four lanes on the TF-1 between Playa de las Americas and Parque de la Reina to be used for REVERSE traffic at certain hours. They say the severe situation being experienced at the moment cannot wait for the creation of a permanent third lane on either side and insist the reverse traffic idea can work, as proven during recent asphalting at night when the change was used. One of the four lanes in this section of the motorway would reverse traffic flow in the morning for vehicles travelling to the south and in the afternoon in the other direction ie towards Santa Cruz. CEST has already initiated a round of meetings with the different administrations and has raised the idea with the Canary Government and Tenerife Cabildo. A statement from the organisation explained: “In the conviction that the
seriousness of the situation in the TF-1 requires answers that cannot wait for the third final lane, businessmen and professionals have raised the possibility of using one of the four lanes which the highway currently has to facilitate the movement of vehicles in the hours of greatest affluence towards the south or north, during the morning or afternoon, respectively.” “In this way, as was carried out during the works to improve the asphalting of these roads, in the morning rush hours, three of the four lanes would be used by vehicles travelling to the south, leaving three of the four lanes for the hours with the highest intensity of traffic heading north, during the afternoon. In this case, in the opinion of the CEST, the formula can be perfectly viable and would only require preparing some points of the median to allow the access of the vehicles to the reversible lane in the sections indicated.” “Given the situation of
blockade that is suffered daily on the south highway and the view that the third lane will not be a reality for a few years, the Circle of Employers believe the administrations should be permeable to this transient solution they propose.” “Entrepreneurs understand that neither residents of the southern region, nor workers, nor tourists deserve that the collapse continues to generate the problems that they are facing daily, without there being any short-term solutions to remedy or reduce it.” CEST stresses that in no way should this proposal be considered the definitive solution. On the contrary, they “insist” that all other necessary steps should be accelerated to stop the island deteriorating as a tourist destination and the ill-effects on companies. A recent study by the economic organisation, Fedea estimated that traffic congestion in Santa Cruz cost companies more than 45 million euros.