The access lane for El Cerval Alto is receiving a few licks of tarmac and the occasional breeze-block bolstering.

According to the First Councillor for La Herradura, Juan José Ruiz Joya, the work is all about improving safety; i.e., preventing car-encased, bottom-of-barranco visits.

The existing defects were caused by land slips below the road and collapsing banks above it.

The work is being carried out by the fearless municipal maintenance department, who, armed with spades and lunch boxes, cement mixers and endless topics of shovel-leaning conversation, will have the said lane ‘shipshape’ some time in an undetermined moment of the near future.

This much needed work is part of a general – dare we say it – looming-election frenzy surge, to improve the network of lanes in the hinterland of La Herradura: El Rescate, Cortijo Andrés Barbero and Cortijo Timoteo, amongst other rural backwaters.

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