The Town Hall has decided to have the roadside vegetation on the N-340 where it enters Motril cut back. This area is known as Los Candelones.

This access road serves the west of Motril, especially for Al Campo and the rest of the commercial centre there, as well as Hospital Santa Ana.

The Agricultural Department is using heavy machinery as well as workers with strimmers clearing the verges and pulling out the weeds growing between the stones of some of the walls running alongside the road.

Anybody whose been here 30 years or more will remember that there was no Motril N-340 bypass and that this main road used to pass right through the town centre, becoming Avenida de Salobreña before changing its name to Avenida Rodríguez Acosta, more or less where the central gasoline station is.

From there it ran past the other gasoline station, changing its name again to Carretera Almería and down through the Vadillo trading estate.

The bypass was eventually built about 1984 making a hell of a difference to town-centre traffic congestion, especially in the summer.

Pretty useless information, but what the hell…

The Councillor for Agriculture, Gloria Chica, says that the work should conclude this week.

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