The A-4050 (Cabra Road) between the Ítrabo Junction and Otívar is still restricted to single-lane traffic owing to the collapse of the hillside eight months ago.

The “A” prefix indicates that it is the Junta de Andalucía’s responsibility and the assure that work progress to shore up the hillside under a house (Que Locura) perched up there, little by little.

The actual situation, even with its traffic-light-governed, single-lane set up, is better than just after the collapse, when you had to go all the way up to Padul and then down to the coast to reach Almuñécar..

Paco, the Mayor, explained that first of all workers had to remove the upper part of the cutting that had not come down, in case it decided to follow suit as the rest, then they drove piles down next to the road to stabilise the ground under the road and below the cutting, and then begin the construction of a retaining wall, nearly 60 metres lone and 20 metres hight hat steps back as you go up it..

The cutting that came down, by the way, was one that was made in the mid-90s when they straighten the road a little – if you think the roads is bendy now, you should have seen it before. Then came work on it in 2006 when the road was widened by cutting back the embankment, and reinforced it by spraying cement over a metal mesh.

So, when can we expect to see the road established for 2-way traffic? Mayor Robles says it should be finished before the year is out. He didn’t mention which year…

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

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