Tenerife Completes €2.9 Million Infrastructure Project to Ease Valle de Güímar Traffic

Construction on the access roads to the Valle de Güímar Industrial Estate is now complete, marking a major improvement for Tenerife’s infrastructure. According to the Island Council, the project has cleared a bottleneck that previously affected 70,000 vehicles every day, including the heavy transport vital to the 300 businesses based there.

The 2.9-million-euro project was fully funded by the Island Council to address long-standing concerns from the municipalities of Arafo, Güímar, and Candelaria. Although the roads are technically under the jurisdiction of the Canary Islands Government, the Council took charge of the funding and technical work through a recent cooperation agreement to quickly relieve traffic for the area’s 5,000 workers.

The project involved reconfiguring the Arafo junctions by adding direct lanes and adjusting existing roundabouts. These changes are designed to handle a traffic flow that previously reached 3,000 vehicles per hour. Island Council President Rosa Dávila noted that this project is part of a wider strategy to target high-congestion areas, with similar improvements planned for Lomo del Caballo and the TF-1 and TF-5 highways.

The Industrial Estate Business Association has praised the speed of the construction, noting that better traffic flow will help local companies operate more efficiently. Francisco González, the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, added that these improvements are a necessary step for the future growth of the industrial estate and highlighted the importance of coordinating transport policy with the economic needs of southern Tenerife. The project is being held up as a successful example of how different levels of government can work together to fix critical road issues.