Second bike lane in the capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife to connect Avenida de Bélgica with Avenida de San Sebastián.
The capital of Tenerife will soon have a green corridor that crosses part of the city. By replacing a car lane with more green space, cyclists and pedestrians will be provided with greater safety.
Green Zone
Santa Cruz will soon have a large green corridor that will cross the city from east to west. There will be wide pedestrian zones, covered with vegetation, where the second bike lane of the capital will be created, connecting Avenida de Bélgica with San Sebastián street, specifically up to the intersection with Bravo Murillo, thus completing part of the bike ring that forms the Red de Movilidad Personal.
The project also involves the removal of a traffic lane in both directions, which will be converted into a new lane for bicycles and scooters. The execution of this project will cost nearly 3.5 million euros, including tree planting and landscaping.
The Area
The works will cover a large part of the space that forms the main entrance to the city, starting from the roundabout at Avenida Islas Canarias and progressing eastward along Avenida de Bélgica to the Plaza de la República Dominicana, near Viera y Clavijo Park. The construction will also overlap part of the pedestrian area of Rambla de Santa Cruz.
The future green corridor will continue from this section, moving downward through Calle San Sebastián, with the bike lane running on the left side of the street, crossing the entire area from Heliodoro Rodríguez López Stadium to Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA), and ending at Avenida Bravo Murillo, next to the Museo de la Naturaleza y Arqueología (MUNA).
Start of Works
The first vice-mayor and councilor for public services, Carlos Tarife, explains that “by next summer we will know for sure whether the requested funding has been approved, so the project can be tendered and the work can begin in the summer of 2026.”
He also notes that this ambitious mobility plan for Santa Cruz is very important, as the government must think big and invest in a city that is increasingly accessible and sustainable. Therefore, more green areas, more sidewalks, and more bike and scooter lanes are needed to promote non-polluting mobility.
Accessibility
Tackling the major traffic artery, Avenida de Bélgica and Calle San Sebastián, is the first step towards sustainable mobility and the ecological development of the capital. Regarding the improvement of accessibility in the Parque La Granja area, the councilor for public services says: “The current sidewalk is full of obstacles that make it difficult for wheelchair users or strollers to pass. There are many streetlights and trees in that part, which we will not remove, but with this project, the sidewalk will be expanded, creating more space.”
It is an important project that, along with the removal of a traffic lane, will improve green areas, create wider sidewalks, and also add a new lane for bikes and scooters to promote sustainable mobility in the city.
First Bike Lane
The lanes crossing Avenida de Bélgica and Calle San Sebastián were once used for traffic due to their connection with the main road, but today, with the tram, they are no longer as necessary. Santa Cruz aims, with this large project, to take further steps toward sustainable mobility by promoting green corridors and bike lanes that contribute to designing a greener and more resilient urban landscape.
Although the works on the first bike lane in the city, which runs through the center of Santa Cruz, are nearly complete and have generated much controversy and opposition from citizens and municipal opposition parties (PSOE and Vox), the city is preparing for a new expansion of the Red de Movilidad Personal, which will contribute to the urban transformation of the municipality.
Third Bike Lane
The municipality of Santa Cruz plans to create a third bike lane in Rambla de Santa Cruz. Although this project has not yet been finalized, Carlos Tarife, the councilor for public services, announces that there are plans to extend the bike lane network to this area, aiming to connect the central artery of the capital, which hosts several schools, to the future Santa Cruz Verde 2030, on the Refinería grounds.
The planning of the urban Red de Movilidad Personal network includes the bike lane that runs through Calle Méndez Núñez, Calle El Pilar, Villalba Hervás, and Bravo Murillo to the Intercambiador. This bike lane will have a length of 18.7 kilometers and will feature both segregated bike lanes and bike streets. New road markings have already been applied to indicate the speed limit of 30 km/h, which will affect 52 streets in the city center, without the need to remove parking spaces.
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