Right, all this digging and bolting together next to Al Campo in Motril will spawn two new roundabouts at the entrance to the town.

The Parque Comerical MOT-21, as it is known, will have a Decatholon sports shop, a multi-cinema, a fast-food restaurant – if that is not a contradiction in terms – and a few nobbly bits and balls of strings.

In order to gain entrance in a civilised manner, there will be a roundabout, so that drivers can use it in a completely illogical manner to which they were designed… but let’s not go into that.

Now, if you have come off the N-340 coming from Salobreña the first frustrating obstacle is a lack of roundabout – yes, you can access Al Campo, etc, but you cannot turn left into the new urbanización there – you have to continue on about 100 metres and then circle the planet before being spat back in the direction that you came.

So, our first new roundabout will bring about order to the chaos of the universe and Iberian roundabout usage. Cool for cats or what?

Now, Dave Darby, who will be proof reading this, will have already guessed that I have been at the rum, but let’s not spoil the fun but plunge on… The present junction (opposite the Al Campo gasoline station) will be turned into a fully functional roundabout (alas not Iberian foolproof, though).

However, there will be one before this point, coming from Salobreña, just where the new shopping centre begins, a mere 178 metres from the above mentioned one.

The question is, however, who is going to pay for the former – the latter is included in the new shopping centre project, but the one in front of the gasoline station isn’t. The Councillor hopes that the business in the existing shopping area (Al Campo/Aki) will chip in to cover the 100,000-euro cost.

Regardless of who pays, Motrileños, visitors and the ‘puzzled but present’ will have three roundabouts to negotiate when entering from the N-340, as well as a smattering of added pedestrian crossings on the said road, known as the Avenida de Europa.

All hale the future!

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