The Town Hall announced, with very little notice, that the Paseo Prieto Moreno along Almuñécar's seafront is closed to traffic from yesterday to Thursday.

This is the one-way road between the Paseo del Altillo and La Caletilla (Peñon del Santo). The reason being is that they are now going to carry out roadworks on the Paseo del Altillo, next to the Monumento al Fenicio; in other words, the sculpture that is half a boat with half a man on it.

The Mancomunidad will be changing all the manhole covers along the sewer pipeline and then they will resurface the whole of the street from the Altillo to Calle Bikini.

This work is part of the Plan de Preposición y Mejora de Vías Pública de Almuñécar y La Herradura 2022 with a budget of a quarter of a million euros, according to the Municipal Maintenance Department.

Other streets that are being subjected to roadworks are Calle Quemahierros and Calle Acuario, as well Calle Empedraillo between, Urb.La Carrera and Calle Jardines del Mar, and along Carretera del Suspiro between the roundabout on La Carrera and the main-road, flyover bridge.

Editorial comment: this is becoming absolutely ridiculous! Just because the municipal elections are in May, the Town Hall is cramming in all the public works it hasn’t carried out in the last four years, so that they will conclude in time for the Mayor being able to say, “look at all we’ve done for the town!” This madness, however, is enacted in just about every municipality in Spain at the moment.

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