Funds for Fonsalía motorway spur diverted to road project in Lanzarote

Janet · 04-12-09, 00:49

The planned connection from the TF1 extension to the new port at Fonsalía has suffered a setback with the €4,500,000 funds for the project being diverted to one for a road connecting Arrecife with Tahíche, in Lanzarote, it has emerged. A considerable part of the excavation for the motorway spur, as well as some bridge and road construction, has already taken place, and the plans look set to leave these works in their unfinished state at least throughout 2010. The photo below shows the project for the new port, which covers the entire coast between Alcalá and Playa San Juan.

The mayor of Guía de Isora, Pedro Martín, has said he wants to speak to the Department of Public Works and Transport before making any comment about the change in 2010’s budget, the reduction in which is at the root of financial planning problems, but the mayor of Adeje, José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga, has openly said that the news is difficult to swallow. Once more, he said, the south of Tenerife has lost out on funding for which it has been fighting for many years.

Alfredo Goñi, spokesman for the nationalist Coalición Canaria in Adeje Ayuntamiento, expressed severe disappointment at the change, and said that the full motorway plan, with the connection to Fonsalía was a priority, with south Tenerife roads in a precarious state, regardless of what the roads in Lanzarote were like. Sr Goñi said he would be talking to his colleagues in the Canarian Government, where the CC is in power, to try to get the decision reversed. The Adeje conservative Partido Popular said it would be doing the same with the PP in Santa Cruz, since the budget amendment was a result of both CC and PP decision-making. JAA

Mr Muppet to you · 06-12-09, 18:59

Surely this link road is one of the most important aspects of the round island ring-road.

If the project is delayed too long so that its opening doesnt co-incide with the opening of the stretch of the TF1 to Santiago del Teide it will do nothing to get traffic off the coast road through San Juan and Alcala, nor will it speed up any journeys.

Reminds me of the days of the huge missing sections of the M25.

Madness !

Janet · 06-12-09, 19:01

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Originally Posted by Mr Muppet to you

Surely this link road is one of the most important aspects of the round island ring-road.

Well not really. It is a fundamental part of the overall project, but the motorway extension, as part of the ring road, could really function perfectly well without it. They will have to come up with the money eventually, however, because it's part of the complete project funded by Madrid.

delderek · 06-12-09, 22:00

I suppose if I were cynical a road in Lanzarote that actually goes somewhere would take preferance over a road that goes to Fonsalia, which is at this time a very small village, and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future.

delderek · 07-12-09, 16:29

Just another thought, why would you want a new port in Fonsalia anyway. Los Cris is not actually maxed out. Ok you may be able to get some cruise ships in there, but then you have got to bus them back to PDLA or Los Cris, because the three bars in Fonsalia are not exactly tourist attractions.

Janet · 07-12-09, 16:34

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Originally Posted by delderek

Just another thought, why would you want a new port in Fonsalia anyway. Los Cris is not actually maxed out. Ok you may be able to get some cruise ships in there, but then you have got to bus them back to PDLA or Los Cris, because the three bars in Fonsalia are not exactly tourist attractions.

The project is to return Los Cristianos to a fishing and pleasure boat (not cruise ships) harbour, and moving the ferries to the port in Fonsalía. It's a simple walk/drive on/off floating ferry. Not designed to turn the area into a tourist place ... Guía doesn't want that anyway.

delderek · 07-12-09, 16:57

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Originally Posted by Janet

The project is to return Los Cristianos to a fishing and pleasure boat (not cruise ships) harbour, and moving the ferries to the port in Fonsalía. It's a simple walk/drive on/off floating ferry. Not designed to turn the area into a tourist place ... Guía doesn't want that anyway.

At the moment you have one Seacat (plus one foot passenger only seacat) , and one ferry operating from Los Cris,and most of the time the port is empty. and much of the foot passenger traffic is generated from tourists seeing the craft leave from the harbour, so to spend billions moving up to Fonsalia, makes no sense to me, except it will accomodate cruise liners, and then fleets of buses with nowhere to park in PDLA or Los Cris.

Oh dear, almost did the old Delderek thing

Janet · 07-12-09, 17:12

I think they're envisaging bigger ferries, that's the problem, way beyond the current Armas ferry. Just look at how big the latest Olsen one is, and they're going to get bigger. Los Cris can't cope with that, and certainly not if it is to retain it's "fishing village" image.