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Buses staging a comeback

Friday, July 6th, 2007
Mindful of the need to get people out of their cars and on to public transport, the island authorities on Tenerife are looking to increase the frequency and coverage of the services. Just a few weeks after the launch of the new tram service that connects the island capital of Santa Cruz with the neighbouring town of La Laguna, the island bus operator, TITSA, has announced a raft of improvements to services in the north of the island. The frequency of services between the northern town of Icod de los Vinos and Santa Cruz (service 106) has been boosted by an additional eight journeys a day. Line 363, which runs from Puerto de la Cruz to Buenavista del Norte ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, Buenavista del Norte, Buses, Environment, Icod de los Vinos, La Laguna, Los Realejos, Puerto de la Cruz, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Shopping, Tourism, Transport

Taking the high road is an expensive business

Monday, April 30th, 2007
The remote and mountainous north west corner of Tenerife has received a major boost with news that work has started on what is likely to be the most expensive stretch of road anywhere in the Canary Islands. The new road, between Adeje in the south west and Santiago del Teide in the north west, is one of the few remaining sections required to complete the island’s equivalent of London’s M25 orbital motorway. The civil engineering challenges to be faced in the project are huge, with tunnels, viaducts, underpasses and overpasses all figuring in the construction work, which it is estimated will cost a staggering €168,000,000. Critics of the scheme, led by the environmental lobby, say it will cost much more than that. The building of another section of the road, between San ...

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Posted by Ken

Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: Adeje, All about Tenerife, Icod de los Vinos, Los Realejos, Roads, San Juan de la Rambla, Santiago del Teide, Transport

Tenerife flights head punctuality charts

Friday, April 27th, 2007
A survey of the punctuality of the departure of flights from UK airports has revealed that services to the holiday islands of Tenerife and Lanzarote are among the top performing. The two Canary Island destinations had on-time departures of over 65 per cent and average delays of less than half and hour. With our skies getting more and more overcrowded, however, the statistics revealed by the Civil Aviation Authority painted a less than rosy picture. Their survey, covering the last quarter of 2006, covered ten British airports, with only one, Edinburgh, reducing delays when compared with the same period in 2005. Gatwick recorded the biggest increase in average delays, climbing from 26 to 35 minutes. The heavy fog which caused widespread disruption to flights in the south of England between December 18-23 contributed to half of the fall in punctuality for scheduled services and all of reduction for charter flights. A ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, Flights, Tourism, Transport

Full steam ahead for new tram system

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
The new tram system in the Tenerife capital of Santa Cruz will carry its first fare-paying passengers on June 2. The new light rail system, or Tranvia, as it is known on the island, has been ready to go into service for a week or two now but its inauguration was delayed because of local elections due to take place on May 27. Officially, the tram service's political masters did not want to be accused of taking advantage of the opening. The cynical among you are probably thinking that they might also have considered that voters might not be favourably disposed towards them if the service hit unforeseen snags during its early days of operation. Tramcars are already a familiar sight in the business centres of Santa Cruz and its near neighbour La Laguna, the two areas linked by the new service. The metro system ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Trams, Transport

New tram system to relieve traffic congestion

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
A new light rail system, or tranvia as it is more generally known, goes into service on the island of Tenerife shortly. A 7.5-miles line will operate between the island capital of Santa Cruz and the neighbouring city of La Laguna. The metro system is designed to relieve congestion in the two cities, which, unless checked, will cause traffic gridlock in five years time. The route of the new service will mean that more than half of the 350,000 population of the two cities will have no more than a five-minute walk to their nearest tram stop. The overhead electricity power supply to the tramcars will be generated by ten specially-commissioned wind turbines, making it a totally zero-emission system. Initially, trams will run every five minutes, with a journey time of 37 minutes. Stops are situated every 500-600 metres and the ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Trams, Transport

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