TF1 extension saga

[Perikles]

I don't think Morris Minors and Ford Anglias were in danger of breaking the speed of light 

In 1968 I drove a Morris Minor from London to Heidelberg and back. It had a maximum speed of 40 mph and it drove German drivers nuts going so slow so that I did most of the journey on the hard shoulder of the motorway.

[Perikles]

Anybody annoyed at the delays in the TF-1 extension should have a look at the Italian equivalent motorway farce here 

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

The big crane which was there to place the supports and road bed is now gone.  Half of it was still there yesterday afternoon but as of 1000 this morning the rest had been removed.  OH thinks the road bed is in place.  Looks like progress.

[Perikles]

The big crane which was there to place the supports and road bed is now gone.  Half of it was still there yesterday afternoon but as of 1000 this morning the rest had been removed.  OH thinks the road bed is in place.  Looks like progress.

Or somebody has stolen it

[poker]

Till where can you drive now coming from Adeje ? And can you already get more eazy to Puerto de la Cruz via the new part . Or still better to take the way arround via Santa Cruz ? Back home and want to go to Lorro Park with children next week .Maybe Ill drive the whole way round , seen it all then in one day . 

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Poker, coming from the south you follow the motorway to the end as usual and take the TF-82.  After you cross the Vera de Erques barranco, you take the next junction to get on the motorway extension where you will have plenty of time to look around as the max speed limit is 80kph.  At Santiago del Teide it ends and you take the old roads continuing north.  At El Tanque you can pick up the TF-5 extension where the speed limit is a max of 100kph until you pass Los Realejos.  Which you won't as you are getting off there to go to the Loro Parque. 

The western route is barely improved and still takes a hell of a lot longer than the south-to-north route.  It is worth seeing, and of course the scenery is beautiful as this is Tenerife.  As long as you are in no hurry, you will enjoy it. 

[El Profesor]

No idea

But welcome home Mr P . . . Did you bring your flying boat?

[Janet]

 

It'll be the end of December. That's the latest estimate from Canarian Government roads minister José Luis Delgado, and Cabildo roads and development councillors Miguel Becerra and Ofelia Manjón for the opening of the Adeje and Santiago del Teide stretch of the TF1. The works on the cracks in the bank around the Santiago del Teide end of the Bicho tunnel have apparently not yet started and are now being treated as an "emergency", and should cost around half a million Euros: needless to say, the authorities are seeking a place to lay the blame and recuperate some of the cost. Also to be finished is the Barranco de Erques bridge, which has been more complicated than previously thought, with problems arising in the suspension tension and in the concreting. This at least might be finished, the ministers said, by mid-November.

[Marion]

I'm over for the weekend and got really excited on teaching the turnoff at Lidl in Adeje. It appeared that I should go straight thru the roundabout instead of turning left as normal. I did and it took me over the motorway and back onto my usual road

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

What are the bets?  Will it be opened in time for Sunday's elections?  They have so much work still to complete in Adeje I don't think so.