The Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) has sided with the residents of Tahíche who opposed the road expansion. The TSJC has upheld the citizens' appeal and annulled the challenged administrative act, which approved the project for the "duplication of the LZ-1 road, in the LZ-3 section".
Thus, the Second Section of the Administrative Litigation Chamber of the TSJC has upheld, in a ruling dated January 15, the appeal filed against this project by several residents of Tahíche. According to the ruling, the administrative act is annulled for "lacking an environmental impact study and, in turn, for not respecting the right to public participation of citizens".
According to this ruling, "there have been no prior studies, preliminary drafts, layout projects, and even less public information or provisional approval". "There is also no environmental impact report nor does it include a detailed study of light pollution levels", the ruling states.
The road works began last July and, as reported by the Government of the Canary Islands at the time, would last 18 months. The works were awarded to the joint venture formed by Dragados and Horinsa.
The Government of the Canary Islands predicted that these works would cost more than 16 million euros. According to ACN Press, the project basically consists of a duplication of the road on a 3.6-kilometer stretch from the exit of Arrecife to Tahíche. A group of residents and several political parties, including PSOE, PIL, and PP, opposed this project, which crosses the urban center of Tahíche.
Also, the César Manrique Foundation commissioned a report that spoke of the disproportion of the project and warned that it would not solve the existing traffic problems.
