Mayor Juan Antonio Lara Marin of Benalmadena inspects progress. Credit: Ayuntamiento de Benalmadena
The translator of Avenida Gamonal and surrounding streets successful Arroyo de la Miel is advancing astatine afloat pace, pinch important upgrades to lighting, thoroughfare benches, landscaping, and roadworthy safety.
The project, pinch a fund of much than 2 and a half cardinal euros, includes a €1 cardinal publication from nan Malaga Provincial Council.
Mayor Juan Antonio Lara precocious visited nan tract to oversee nan advancement and explained nan project’s domiciled successful “transforming and revitalising iconic parts of Arroyo de la Miel.” The broad scheme covers not only nan main avenue but besides adjacent streets, including San Silvestre, Aguacate, Leo, Capricornio, Libra, Virgo, Tauro, Piscis, and Zodiaco.
Key useful see nan installation of caller lighting, thoroughfare furniture, and landscaping, alongside roadworthy resurfacing and pavement upgrades. Specific improvements see constructing a wall, laying paving, and asphalting successful Sagitario, arsenic good arsenic paving and marble features connected Avenida Gamonal from Calle San Silvestre to nan Águila building, and are complemented by caller planters for flower features.
The task besides focuses connected improving nationalist infrastructure, specified arsenic nan drainage and irrigation systems, and includes character pruning, transplanting, and removal, peculiarly of thenar trees successful cardinal areas of Gamonal. According to nan council, nan useful will make a much pedestrian-friendly environment.
However, not each residents are happy pinch nan creation of nan works. Numerous locals, particularly among nan aged and infirm, person complained astir nan materials utilized for paving. The polished marble tiles inset into ceramic pavements person proven to beryllium a hazardous misstep, particularly for a organization pinch truthful galore pensioners navigating its hilly terrain. Many dread nan autumn rainy season, which they opportunity will make immoderate streets excessively treacherous to walk.