The Minister of Public Works of the Government of the Canary Islands, Sebastián Franquis, will convene a meeting on the island of La Palma next Monday, April 11, with the political and technical leaders of the Cabildo, the municipalities of Los Llanos de Aridane, Tazacorte and El Paso and the Ministry itself to agree on a proposal for the layout of the new coastal road that will cross the lava flows area and link the town of Puerto Naos with Tazacorte.
The initial proposal, which modified the original layout, would destroy part of the farms that managed to save the lava, which led the affected neighbors to the impotence of seeing how they were not heard and they were going to destroy what escaped the clutches of Cumbre Old.
Franquis wants to find an agreement with the local administrations of the island and agree on a route that affects the homes and farms in the area as little as possible.
The counselor has recorded that the proposal for the route that is going to be agreed on this Monday is the result of the work carried out in recent months by the technicians of all the local administrations of La Palma together with those of the Government of the Canary Islands, who have kept constant for meetings seek solutions to mobility in the Aridane Valley after the lava flows from the Cumbre Vieja volcano devastated a large part of the road network.
“It is about reaching a proposal that is as consensual as possible and that, logically, affects as few farms and homes as possible, and that this is the proposal that is definitively transferred to the Ministry of Transport, which is responsible for executing the work", assured Minister Franquis, "once we have this agreed proposal, the objective is to transfer the information to those families, farmers and people affected so that they have first-hand concrete and timely information on the scope of the work to be carried out develop".
technically feasible
Agree on a technically viable layout that causes the least possible impact on the banana farms that are in its path, persisting in a work table to further specify the layout of the technical proposal and specify, where possible, by the conditioning technicians and of the lava land itself, the layout of the new road with the aim of safeguarding as much as possible the integrity of the farms and homes in the area.
«The Government is committed from the beginning to work technically to try to plan a new connection between the north and the south of the lava flows that can now be carried out, but nevertheless it must be a work that must be carried out with the consensus of all the public institutions of La Palma. And that is what we are going to seek and pursue at this meeting next Monday”, said Sebastián Franquis.
Councilor Franquis also confirmed that after agreeing on this route proposal with the palm administrations, in later days, he will summon the owners of affected farms and homes to inform them of the scope of the anticipated emergency work, a work considered essential to recover the connectivity and mobility of this part of the island of La Palma.
The initial proposal contemplated a length of 8,5 kilometers, approximately 5,5 of a new layout with 2,5 south of lava that will join Puerto Naos and Tazacorte. With it, it intends to recover the lost connection of the lava flows on the LP-213 highway in Puerto Naos, and the LP-215 and LP-2 highways in Tazacorte.
It is a work on the coast, which has an estimated investment of around 38 million euros, which includes approximately 9,3 million euros planned for expropriations.
