The Almuñécar Town Hall has been busy up in Río Seco Alto and Gelibra, sorting the tracks out, as part of the Planes de Obras y Servicios Provinciales, Belonging to the Agricultural Board of the Junta de Andalucia, through which funds are made available for the improvement of rural-lane networks.

It has also been throwing some of its own, limited, financial resources into the task, says, the Councillor for Public Works and Maintenance, José Manuel Fernández Medina.

The Councillor explained that the work, up in the hills, bordering on the municipalities of Jete and Otívar, is aimed at providing a good, driveable surface for wheeled transport, together with the necessary signposting.

Nearly two kilometres of track is being sorted out, costing around 700,000 euros, at the hands of the construction company, López Porras. In the case of Gelibra, tarmac will be laid as far as the Molino area.

The lanes will be modified to have a minimum width of three metres in the case of Río Seco Alto, although it will be widened even further where there is no visibility; i.e, on bends, whereas the Gelibra lane the width will be around four metres. Obviously, this widening work will also entail stabilizing the cuttings etc.

As for the signposting, there will be a good sprinkling of speed limit ones (40 kph), as well as ‘Narrow Lane Ahead,’ not to mention “Turn back, you reckless fool!” just to scare the hell out of foreign visitors.

(News: Almunecar/Herradura, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)