The regional MP for Housing & Public Works announced in November that the Motril bus station would be finished by the end of January. Guess what… it isn’t finished.

The ex-Mayor, now in the luxury of the opposition, accuses the actual Mayor, socialist Flor Almón, of lying over this promised completion date. She evidently has no recall of the numerous failed promises that she had made, concerning the bus station when she was at the helm. Such are politicians.

So what’s the problem… besides politicians, that is? The bus-station project is a joint venture between the Junta and the Town Hall: the latter was to provide the plot and to ‘urbanizarlo‘ or in other words, install the infrastructure: water, electricity, access roads, etc. The Junta is responsible for the building itself and everything in it.

On the 18th of December the town hall put the infrastructure-project up for public bidding in the official Gazette. (Boletin Oficial de la Provincia) with a budget of 160,246 euros, giving the closing date as the 13th of January and an execution timetable of 18 months.

On the 22nd of January the board got together and started sifting through the 63 bids and to date the bid has not been awarded. When it finally is, the winning company will have a month to 45 days to get the job finished, so, we are looking at the end of February; in other words, the Día de Andalucia.

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