Part of TF445 Punta de Teno road collapses a year after reopening

[Janet]

exactly.

The question, really, is ... how many other roads are ready to give way like this at any moment for no apparent cause ...

[Janet]

The Cabildo has announced that repair works on the retaining wall that collapsed on the Teno road last month started on 1 August and are being carried out simultaneously with soundings to analyse the state of the remaining supporting wall. The results will determine whether it is also necessary to reinforce any other part of the stretch.

Cabildo Public Works chief Miguel Becerra said that the current phase of the works is intended to create a lorry lane by September so that the agricultural trade of the area, for which it's renowned, can resume in time for the harvest. Becerra was on site accompanied by Cabildo Roads chief Ofelia Manjón and Buenavista mayor Eva García.

In this second phase the wall structure is being reinforced with a system of tie-bar rivets anchoring it to the mountainside. The works are being carried out by Traverca, a company that specializes in vertical operations. Becerra added that the Cabildo is also currently analysing the causes of the collapse, but that a variety of factors is more likely than a single cause.

Once the wall reinforcement is finished, the Cabildo will turn to tarmacking the road, and this will be a fairly rapid process since the contract for exactly this work had already been awarded before the collapse. It is expected that the road will be open around the end of the year, but studies are currently being carried out into the maximum capacity of the finished road, and whether daily visitor numbers will need to be restricted.

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[Kingbaker]

A hole has opened up in the road and engineers are looking into it

[TOTO 99]

 
Awwwww....That report was doing really well.....right up until the words " fairly rapid process"........

I guess that means around 2019 at the earliest then.........

[Janet]

After all the speculation that there would be very limited access on the road in the future,  based just on the consultative exercises that were being carried out, we now know the actual situation of the future of the Teno road. The Tenerife Cabildo has announced today that the road will reopen this Friday, 23 December, and public traffic will only be restricted between 10am and 5pm at weekends and fiestas, i.e. the times of heaviest usage. During these times, only buses and vehicles with permits (eg agricultural vehicles) will be able to use the road, but at all other times, public traffic will have free access.