The Asociación de Alcohólicos Rehabilitados de Almuñécar (ARDA) has been given a summer-parking area to manage, next to the Medical Centre.
“The arrangement is two fold; on the one side we’re proving extra, summer, parking facilities when the town is most crowded, and on the other we are collaborating with local social entities like ARDA,” explained the Councillor for Citizen Safety, Francisco Robles.
This parking area – an empty building plot where the new law courts are supposed to go up – joins the other summer-parking area down in the crater where the municipal market stood. This is being run by Cáritas de Almuñécar, which is a church charity.
The Market-pit parking is open 24/7 until September and has a capacity for 170 vehicles and costs 50c an hour. The ARDA parking area is set at four euros a day as a donation.
Editorial comment: of course, by the time that you read this the towns biggest parking area, the Plaza Blas Infante, more commonly known as the Friday-Market Square, will be closed for parking for most of August so that they can set up the fairground (which will operate only one week) and so that political parties can make money at the expense of bars and restaurants around town.
(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia