Demonstration against the Agaete-La Aldea motorway.
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
Yesterday,
around 1500 people met in "Agaete"32 for a pacific demonstration against of the project, proposed by the canarian district council, that should link "Agaete" and "La Aldea" with a motorway. The demonstrants carried an extended 5000m² black plastic canvas simbolizing the wanted re-location of the actual project to a zone which is less "agressive" to the environment of the natural park it goes through.
The actual road between "Agaete" and "La Aldea" consists of 31 km with about 360 curves which are driven in moreorless 45 minutes. The new project consists of a stretch, of a reduced length of 18 km, with 12 tunnels and 9 bridges. The average speed of this new road will be 80km/h and will reduce the driving-time to 20 minutes. The length of all bridges and tunnels will be the 52,4% of the entire motorway and the longest bridge will be 530 m long. The whole ...
