Work has started to complete Tenerife motorway ring road. Some 70 workers, 27 of them excavation specialists, will now proceed to work rotational shifts to tunnel an average of four metres a day at each of the tunnel mouths. They will be using a dozen specialized machines including the so-called jumbo, vehicles that drill and prepare the holes for the bores, as well as normal excavators, to advance in stages blasting and dilling mechanicallly to create the tunnel’s two tubes. Each of these will be 13m wide to facilitate two carriageways and a pavement for emergency evacuation: the width is intended, clearly, to allow for a third lane in the future. This project will allow guests staying at any of our properties to drive to the south of the island in under 40 minutes and more importantly arrive relaxed, avoiding all the curves and bends along the way in this part of the island.
