Today’s choice for an article published ten years ago on the Seaside Gazette website concerns Almuñécar’s repetitive roadworks on one of its main thoroughfares, Avenida de Andalucía.

Four years before this article was published the said street had already undergone major roadworks and then, slap bang in the middle of Easter 2014 (it also fell in April that year) roadworks began, effectively closing this very important street to traffic.

Now since that year, it has undergone yet more roadworks as recently as 2018, with this year seeing that particular task finished.

Avenida de Andalucía was originally tarmacked with parking down both sides until the then Mayor in 2014, Juan Carlos Benavides decided to do away with the parking and pave the road surface with flat cobblestones.  Within a couple of years the road surface was dotted with potholes caused by subsiding cobblestones – as was the recent situation on the Paseo del Altillo.

Along came the present Mayor, Trinidad Herrera, and “all change, rip it all up!”

Anyway, I’ll leave you to read this 2014 article (see link in first paragraph) and find out why this disruptive roadworks had started during Easter, lasting into summer…

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