Typical Marbella: good idea but bad execution.

Marbella has a very long boardwalk along its shore, especially around Puerto Banus and the city center. However there remain many areas not easily accessible for a leisurely walk.

For a long time, Marbella City Hall has had a project to create a continuous boardwalk along the city sea shore, from San Pedro Alcantara to Elviria. This year, it was decided to implement most of it. Great initiative winning applause from all!

A completely new bridge was erected over rio verde to link Puerto Banus on the east side, and construction started to connect San Pedro beach to Puerto Banus on the West side.

Well… We are now in mid-July. The tourists have arrived and the San Pedro boardwalk is far from being finished. Worst of all, it seems that construction is not advancing. It is a major inconvenience and a miserable sight for all living in the area.

I find this shocking. This city needs and lives of tourism. If there was not enough time to complete the work before tourists´ arrival (they always come in July/August by the way – no surprise there), why didn´t City Hall delay the project another year? If they thought they had enough time to complete it on time, why isn´t it finished?

I place the blame for this blatant lack of planning on incompetency combined with a lack of priority for San Pedro. I am willing to listen to any other explanation!

Marbella deserves better! Whether led by the PSOE, GIL or PP, this city needs more professional managers and less political appointees on its payroll. Unfortunately, this type of occurrences will give more feeding grounds for those preaching the separation of San Pedro and Marbella…

Marbella boardwalk in July

Work on San Pedro boardwalk in July

Tourists enjoying San Pedro beach and its construction

Kids´playground closed in July on San Pedro beach.

The tunnel of San Pedro is taking shape

After many months of preparatory work, the new tunnel of San Pedro Alcantara is starting to emerge. Here are some recent pictures of the entrance to the tunnel and the overpass at the Ronda roundabout. Construction is scheduled to be finished in nine months.

Entrance to San Pedro tunnel

Entrance to San Pedro tunnel

Overpass at Ronda roundabout

Information for Marbella Foreign Residents

Marbella City Hall is looking for ways to get the foreign residing community more involved in the life of the city and is organizing regular meetings with Marbella officials. Here is an invitation to learn more about the environment and beaches…

¨Dear friends,

The Foreigners Department of Marbella wishes to familiarize the Foreign Community with the function and scope of each Municipal Delegation. For this purpose, we have organized a series of talks in which each Delegate can explain the basics of his/her function, as well as to receive suggestions and answer questions of the various Associations of Foreign Residents.

Antonio Espada, Councillor in charge of Street Cleaning, Waste Collection, Environmental issues and Beaches invites the foreign community to hold a meeting with him on Thursday, November 12th at 17:00 p.m. in Cortijo Miraflores (Avenida del Mercado, by the City Court).

The Foreigners Department considers of fundamental importance that foreigners familiarize themselves with the functioning of the Town Hall, and in particular, with each Delegation. We expect your active participation in theses talks where you can discuss your concerns and your suggestions .

Please confirm you attendance by e-mail to extranjeros@marbella.es

Cordially,
Oti Gª Díaz-Ambrona
Delegación de Turismo y Extranjeros
Department for Tourism & Foreign Residents
Glorieta de la Fontanilla s/n
29601 Marbella
952868977 / 619113127¨