Calle Ingenio Real, Calle Azúcar and Pasaje San José in San Sebastian, Almuñécar, are being dug up to lay pipe-work infrastructure.

If like me, you nip through San Sebastian to avoid the main-road traffic lights to get into town, then you will find the short-cut closed to traffic. You can still get onto the Otívar road, but the visibility is terrible for turning left down into town.

Anyway, 164,000 euros is being spent on laying rain drains as these streets don’t have any. The water mains and sewage system will also be improved.

Once this infrastructure has been laid, the road surface will be improved – as at least one of these two streets has potholes.

As for the Pasaje San José, which is found between Calle San José and Calle Ángel Gámez, (centre of Almuñécar) the flat cobblestones are uneven; i.e., sunk in places, and it doesn’t have any rain drains, either.

This very short alley should be fun because it runs past the old Restaurante Muralla and comes out at the bottom of the steps, more or less, down from Calle Real outside Contreras.

The PP Councillor for Maintenance said that this was being funded by the PP-run Provincial Council – which of course it isn’t; it’s being funded by tax payers – funny how politicians forget that…

(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia – Photo: Juan Manuel de Haro)