The Benidorm City Council’s Department of Public Space will spend €599,738.09 on the 2025 Asphalt Plan, which will start immediately and should be finished in a month. The work will affect roads and highways in the city that are in poor shape, with cracks in the surface or damage that makes driving uncomfortable and dangerous.
The municipal experts wrote a plan that says the project will focus on Avenida de l’Aigüera, Calle Juan Llorca, Londres, Paraguay, La Cala, Vigo, and the CV70 branch near the Red Cross roundabout.
Francis Muñoz, the Councillor for Public Space, has said that the council “has been doing maintenance work on the paving of streets and public roads that are in bad shape, and this plan is a continuation of other paving plans that have already been carried out.”
Muñoz has said that the bidding and awarding of the contract would happen in a few days, and the goal is to finish the work by the end of this year.
Cracks in the pavement, potholes, and other fissures are common causes of road damage, which “significantly impact road traffic.” Muñoz said that these problems are usually caused by a number of things, such as “heavy traffic, the quality and age of the pavement, and damage caused by torrential rainwater, among others.”
The councillor said that the City Council does things every year “depending on the needs, the budgetary possibilities, the condition and importance of the roads to be treated or their impact on traffic.”
There are all sorts of concerns with the streets where construction is scheduled for the project. The most important thing is that the road surface is getting worse, either because of potholes or sinkholes, or because the pavement is very worn.
Francis Muñoz said, “In some parts of the street, the asphalt is so bad that we’ve seen it slowly falling apart.” Also, work will be done in several areas of the city where traffic accidents happen a lot, which are known as “black spots.”
The project has two ideas for how to pave the streets.
If more than 50% of the roadway or a part of it has a bad surface, a full treatment will be done.
Also, when the road doesn’t need a full treatment, potholes and other damaged areas will undergo targeted treatment.
Francis Muñoz further stressed that all of the planned construction will take place “on publicly owned land,” which means that the site is “completely” available for the work. “This will help us meet the deadlines and cut down on the time as much as possible.” Lastly, Muñoz said sorry to neighbours and drivers who could be affected by the work, “but they need to know that we are doing this to make the roads safer and to stop damage and accidents.”
Author: Derek Appleton
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