TF1 extension saga

[Janet]

The Tenerife Cabildo and the Canarian Government have jointly announced funding for next year that guarantees the completion of the TF1 extension by 2015. Cabildo president Carlos Alonso said that the island would receive €146.7m from the regional government for road development, a sum which would permit prioritised works to continue despite "brutal" cuts in funding from Madrid. The road funding in Tenerife will be directed to completing the northern Icod-El Tanque portion of the ring road with funding of €131m; this should be open to traffic during the course of next year. The southern Santiago del Teide-Adeje stage, with total funding of €10m between 2014 and 2015, should be open in 2015. JA

[Guanche]

I wonder how much of this is 'EU' money and not Madrids. We'll soon know if the notice boards for the work include that dam blue flag.

[Janet]

It's not Madrid's, that's for sure! They were explicit!

[Janet]

Despite the timescales as posted last month, which saw the Icod-El Tanque extension completed next year and the Adeje-Santiago extention waiting until 2015, the Cabildo has now announced that the schedule and funding will be rearranged so that the south extension works will be brought forward, and the Adeje-Santiago stretch completed, in the main, in 2014. The Cabildo is now putting the change of schedule to the Canarian Government for final approval.

Unfortunately for those who live in the Tijoco-Tejina-Vera de Erques areas, it is their part – the ongoing seemingly insuperable problem with bridging the barranco de Erques – that will have to wait until 2015. The "main part" of the extension to be completed next year is the túnel del Bicho and the Vicácaro bridge. This means that the TF1, as far as traffic is concerned, will still end at Adeje, and resume at Tejina to continue on to Santiago del Teide (the so-called "chicken run" stretch), where it will find another gap awaiting completion through El Tanque.

I suppose we should really be pleased that some works are going ahead, but at some point they really are going to have to come to terms with bridging that Erques barranco ... otherwise the whole extension will have been something of a joke. JA

[minesadorada]

More delay for the Adeje->Tejina stretch eh?  The local dog-walkers and cyclists at the bottom of my urbanisation will be pleased.

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Yes, they are the only people getting any joy from the extension.

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

We went up the mountain yesterday to take pictures of Teide covered in snow.  Here is a picture I took showing that the spur to Fonsalía is very nearly finished.

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This is not a clear picture, but you can see two bridges:  in the foreground is a half-built one extending to the middle of a barranco; that is the TF-1.  The one in back of it is, you guessed it, the bridge to the Fonsalía spur. 

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Basically, there has been no work done between Tijoco Bajo and Tejina.  But thank heavens The Fonsalía spur, a/k/a the Road to Nowhere, could be opened tomorrow.

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[Janet]

[minesadorada]

Another delay:

http://eldia.es/2014-06-15/TENERIFE/1-tramo-Sur-anillo-insular-abrira-plazo-previsto.htm

[Janet]

Corrupt useless bastards.